Mom's favorite older roses dad planted are magnets along with other none rose plants.

I would like to know if I can treat now to reduce for next season and how.

It is cold and damp this week, but next week we will be hot again. With a big veggie garden, nothing that hurts bees or non organic.

I will except roses that rust at the end of the season, on old foliage, but if they rust on new foliage -- ymmv, but to me, that's not acceptable.

That said, this WAS an exceptionally bad spring for rust, and the unusual weather patterns even brought us blackspot. I don't think I'd judge a rose on its performance THIS spring.

Jeri

I have always used LiquiCop (per advice from Vintage Gardens), and it works just fine. And, just now I googled liquicop and rust and....it seems to be included in a list of approved organic items for rust.... Amazing

And the other plants normally are not rust buckets, but this year they are. I just want to get a handle on the rust issue for next season.

HUEY, OTOH, rusts.

So, maybe, with Huey gone, and some good fertilizer and water, the old Don might make a comback -- and might in a better year NOT be a rust-bucket.

Jeri

Try it....you may like it.

Jeri, I have so many rusty things and old fungi to clean up from the decades of unchecked overgrowth from the years between when Dad could no longer handle the garden and when he decided I could start cleaning it up.

Little things like truck bed loads of peach pits from infected trees. My goal is a better next year for certain plants (note most of my new roses are planted away from the rust "belt")

When the plants go dormant in the fall, I raze them to the ground (our bud unions are below grade), thus stripping the plants of any fungii on the canes because there are none. The new canes are disease free and, for me, have stayed that way.

Steve

Are you getting thick June Gloom? I think you get less of it than we do, but even in June Gloom, the afternoons clear. We have bright sun today, with the lightest sea breeze, and pleasantly-warm temps. There's not much you can spray on these roses at this time that won't cause more problems than they fix.

Jeri, South of you, in Camarillo

We probably get the gloom thicker here, yesterday you would have thought it was raining by the drips off the plants and roof. It cleared about sunset, although the drizzle had stopped by about 2pm

Mom's will have the sun pop out before my house, I am too close to the ocean, she has a foothill between her and the beach.

It is not just roses that have rust, but I thought I would ask here. I have one plant that I am going to yank out, save what I can and spray the rest down and toss the top few inches of soil. The ground is orange under it.

Would spraying the bare ground after the removal help kill spores? (it was below a fungi infested peach-gone now) with too much shade for the plant

Clearer here today, though.
And yeah, I think I'd try to remove ALL of that litter and toss it in the trash. Back when we sprayed (with chemicals) yes, I would have sprayed the ground, too. But I'm not "up" on that stuff, now, and I don't honestly know what would work, and what would do harm.

Jeri