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Soapy water on my rose bushes for brown and black spots
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margie12u
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| Posted: Tue Jul 14, 2009 10:26 pm Post subject: Soapy water on my rose bushes for brown and black spots |
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Hi everyone do you know if its true to put some soapy water on my rose bushes for the brown and black spots it will help. all my leaves are falling off, about 90 percent of the leaves are gone in just a couple of days,Thank you for your help Margie 
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kuntrygal
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| Posted: Fri Jul 17, 2009 2:23 am Post subject: |
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Margie, I'm sorry I don't have an answer for you, but I am sure someone will be along soon, that really knows their stuff. That's a pity about your roses losing all their leaves. 
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dooley
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| Posted: Fri Jul 17, 2009 2:47 am Post subject: |
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Don't use soapy water. Spray the bushes with milk. Be sure to get the undersides as well as the tops. It does work but you may need to do it more than once. I generally pick off all the leaves affected with the spots and trash them. Don't put them in your compost. dooley
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daisybeans
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I meant to reply to this when you first posted it but I guess I spaced... A while ago, I rec'd an amazing amount of helpful info from our friends here about black spot on roses. Covers everything... Amazing!! Here are the two threads containing that info. Maybe will help you too.
http://www.gardenstew.com/about14707.html
http://www.gardenstew.com/about15320.html
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