Re: Re: rose/crab apple rust and Japanese Beetles

**Marya Williams sistermarya@juno.com>**

The silver spots sound like powdery mildew. You can spray baking soda to
prevent this-- 3 Tablespoons baking soda and a teeny bit of dishwashing
liquid (to help it stick to the leaves) to a gallon of water. It will
also help with black spot if done regularly. Both diseases will be helped
if the plants have plenty of sunshine and air circulation.

I don't know which beetles you have, but I have beetles about that size
on mine and they go in between the petals and eat holes. They are
greenish yellow with black spots-- the spotted cucumber beetle (they
don't eat just cukes!). Mostly I just squash them when I find them.

                                                Marya

> I do know that these roses had some kind of mold growing on them.  
> The 
> leaves had silver spots all over them.  But this year with the trees 
> gone 
> now my new plants did not take at all.  I got a couple of blooms on 
> them and 
> them they didn't bloom again.  I don't know what else could be the 
> cause?
> 

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