On 17 Mar 2003 18:38:45 GMT, (Iris Cohen) wrote:

There is probably no really effective organic control for black spot. Hybrid
tea roses & their ilk require a lot of chemical controls.


Jeezus Iris, you mean YOU don't know how to control black spot
organically! Or more likely are not interested in learning how to.
BIRC has done a lot of work along those lines and any homemade highly
bacterial compost tea WILL control black spot!!!!

http://www.better-flora.com/rose-black-spot.htm

http://www.hortnet.co.nz/publication...e/beresfd1.htm

http://www.rose-black-spot.com/


"As crude a weapon as a cave man's club the chemical barrage has been hurled at the fabric of life."
Rachel Carson