Overhead Watering. Disease Preventative?

In a recent blog post onHot Weather Rose Tips , I mentioned I give my rose a bath during the heat to cool them down and take some stress off the parting . It also washes dust away when there is a long spell of no rain like we are presently experiencing here in the upstate of South Carolina .

I once learned from some with knowledge of such thing that when a blackspot spore lands on a rose leaf it shoot about twenty - four hours to actually impound to the leaf . Why is this significant ? Because it mean you have a twenty - four hour windowpane to wash the spore off the leafage before the actual infection begins .

At my sometime move up greenhouse on gay daylight I used to turn on the sprinklers in the retail area for about 5 minutes right around noon prison term . We did this to not only give them a tub but also to see if would help subdue disease . This was in an area with 100 of pink wine in 3 - congius pots packed in pretty wet .

It work . I detect a reduction in blackspot , we had to spray far less and eventually stopped spray chemicals all together when we went to an all raw care broadcast . That high noon time / sunny day bath still remains part of my chemical gratis upkeep program here on our farm .

I ’m not saying this will work in all part of the country but for me , and for many others who have done it , there is some disease control . Try it in your garden , around high noon , only on a gay day and only for about 5 minutes and see if it facilitate .

I realise it ’s obstinate to almost everything written on roses but hey for me , it works .

Happy RoseingPaul

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