[Rose-list] is cedar apple rust a problem for roses

**p*@cdg-hargray.com**

I cut down a huge cedar in my backyard this spring.
last weekend my father-in-law brought his chipper
over to work up all the little stuff.
Now i have this nice tidy mound of cedar chips.
I plan on using them around all of my roses -
except, the primary reason i cut it down was to
get rid of the cedar apple rust gauls that were on it.
since roses and apples are in the same family
i wondered whether the sliced and diced little pieces
of cedar rust would then infect my roses. (?)

are cedar chips in and of themselves appropriate to use
as a mulch for roses?

Phillip - pondering the spectacle of zillions of tiny cedar
rust galls coming back to life and attacking my gardens...

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