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

**"* S* <S*@schwabe.com>**

I'm not sure if it's true for wood chips, but sawdust will leach nitrogen
from the soil and make the leaves of your plants yellow and sick looking.
You can still use it and compensate with nitrogen rich fertilizer, I
suppose, but I prefer a "mat" of good ol' compost for my roses.

How about using the chips in an area for pathways?

Susan Saxton, zone 6b
For mine is a little old fashioned garden where the flowers come
together to praise the Lord and teach all who look upon them to do
likewise.
Celia Thaxter

I AM in shape.  ROUND is a shape!

> -----Original Message-----
> From: prgramly@cdg-hargray.com [p*@cdg-hargray.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, May 11, 1999 8:49 AM
> To: rose-list@mallorn.com
> Subject: [Rose-list] is cedar apple rust a problem for roses
> 
> 
> 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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