This is one of the best strategies to prevent rose rosette in your yard, but you must be vigilant. Fortunately, staying on top of it sometimes entails going outdoors and admiring your flowers. That's fun.
1. Cut Off and Destroy Any Infected Rose Parts
If the sick section is taken off when symptoms develop, 68% of roses are virus-free one year later, finds a research. Delaying pruning for four to six weeks caused rose rosette symptoms in 72% of roses within a year.
2. 68 Percent is a Pretty Decent Percentage
Planting a live fence or tall plant border around roses may prevent RRD. Roses were planted within and outside a ring of tall ornamental grasses by University of Tennessee Extension researchers.
3. Ornamental Grasses to the Rescue
Growing Miscanthus grass everywhere may be difficult, but growing coneflowers, yarrow, Russian sage, and alyssum amid the roses offers numerous advantages beyond appearance.
4. Create Mixed Plantings Around Your Roses
Roserosette.org studies the disease and develops RRD-resistant roses. You may get plenty of useful information on their site.
5. Report Your Rose Rosette Cases to Roserosette.org
Grafting and pruners may propagate the rose rosette virus. Wipe pruners with 70% rubbing alcohol or spray them with Lysol between roses. Overall, thorough cleanliness between flowers is recommended.
6. Clean Off Your Rose Pruners Between Roses
Wind carries disease-spreading mites, so utilizing leaf blowers around your roses may be spreading them! Instead of a leaf blower, use a broom to clean your garden walkways.
7. Avoid Leaf Blowers
To make it harder for mites to migrate between rosebushes, put roses further apart. This should be enough reason to grow perennials around your roses.
8. Give Your Rosebushes Some Space