today on gardening with creekside i am going to show you what black spot and
spider mites look on your roses and how to treat them stay tuned
good morning friends welcome to gardening with creekside i am jenny i say good morning because
we are out here bright and early before the sun comes up to talk about these precious beloved
new david austin roses that i planted this year on our arch this is the generous gardener i have
one planted on each side of the arch to come and meet in the middle now we have talked about these
roses several times already this year and i have been very open and honest with you that this is
my first time growing roses and i have shared with you what has worked and today i'm going to
share with you some of my struggles because i have found i don't know about you but a lot of
times in life i learn a lot more when i have a failure or a struggle as opposed to when things
just go great and smooth and perfect so this is definitely an example of something that has gone
wrong and we need to address it the rose here to my left is more affected by black spot
and spider mites than the one on my right when i first started to begin to see little black spots
and yellow leaves on this rose i really did think well maybe it was a water issue because
of course here we are coming in you know out of august it's hot it's dry it is the south and so
i thought maybe it was a water issue and i just made sure that i watered
the roses a little bit more frequently and a little bit more deeply then i was over here
actually just in that last video where i was tying up the rose to train it
and i was like yeah i know something it's not right here so what i have discovered is yes i
really do have black spot but in my opinion what's even almost even worse is there are spider mites
on this rose spider mites are just a very um they're very common first of all
they're very hard to actually see them so you can it's not like a caterpillar or a japanese beetle
where they're large and you can clearly see what they are so it's more that you have to know the
signs of spider mites as opposed to actually seeing them because the spider mite itself
is smaller than a pin head extremely small and they live on the underside of your leaves there
are some clear tell-tale signs of a spider mite first of all you will notice like a
rust coloring on top of your leaf so that was my first thought was okay i've got this dark
almost looks like dirt like a rust covering over your leaf and then the sure sign is that you have
little tee tiny spider webs growing underneath the leaf the best way to get rid of these there
are several organic ways that you can get rid of them but spider mites can be really pesky
and hard to get rid of we have dealt with them before in the greenhouse and they are just a
real nuisance and a real problem left unchecked they will spread rapidly throughout your garden
through your plant it can get to the point where you will just have to dig the plant up and dispose
of it so what i have done is especially this was the area that was really affected right here and
so i went through yesterday with my clippers and i began cutting off all the affected leaves i just
came in really close and i just snipped and then i put them in a bucket when you have spider mites
you want to put them in the trashcan you do not want to compost these don't put them in some you
know part of your yard that you're going to you know recycle and make compost or just dispose of
it needs to go into the trash can and get it off your property because if you just put it
in another location they're just going to breathe there and go happy and all over your garden once
you're done pruning your plant with the spider mites go ahead and disinfect your clippers between
the black spot and the spider mites you want to disinfect your clippers just a nice mild bleach
solution to kill anything that might be still on these clippers because you don't want to then take
the fungus and go spread it somewhere else to a healthy plant so what i'm going to use today is a
special spray that is specifically for black spot fungus and the spider mice because spider mites
are just from experience extremely difficult to get rid of once you have them getting rid of those
affected leaves but then we need to make sure that we go in and kill and eliminate any of these the
eggs or the any other adults that would be on the plant so we're going to use this is a three in one
but it is specifically for mites and funguses so this is what we're going to use i just mixed
it up according to the directions and a one gallon sprayer and we're going to spray now the best time
to spray this on your plants is going to be first thing in the morning before the sun comes up or
late in the evening that way we don't affect any other um beneficial insects that are out and about
they're still in the bed they're still sleeping so we're going to go ahead and get these sprayed
this will kill the spider mites on contact and it will last for another 30 days now you may be
asking well jenny what in the world did you even get black spot and spider mites to begin with
one is extremely common in our hot humid climate um and this is just black spot is something that
really affects roses it's a very common problem with roses so as a gardener you have to decide
is having the roses worth doing the work to prevent these diseases and that's just
a personal choice for me i enjoy these roses i want to have these roses in my garden so yes
it is worth that extra effort to have these in here i have talked about that i have used
a granular once a month on these roses clearly jenny missed a couple of applications or an
application or two and hence this is why i am in the situation that i am in it is much easier to
be preventive than reactive so set a talent set a reminder on your calendar and treat these things
to prevent this stuff from ever happening in the beginning at the end of the season what i will do
really in late winter i will go ahead and trim this climbing rose
because it's its first year i will just give it a light trim but i will make sure that i remove any
still might be there i want it completely gone again we'll put that in the trash can
and not in the um compost so we're gonna now just go ahead and spray the rose
so when i'm going to spray the roses basically i just want
full coverage i don't want it dripping wet but i want to make sure that i try to get
on top of the leaves and under the leaves so we're just going to go for this and see how it goes
so
one little tip that i will give you is that i have a dedicated sprayer for each of the
different kind of applications that i use in the garden because it's really important again
learning from experience to keep separate sprayers for separate applications so if you're using like
what we're doing more of a pesticide systemic you can use that if you have one that's just dedicated
for organic uses whether it's neem oil or insecticidal soap you can keep them separate for
that and then if you have like an herbicide that you're using keep a separate one for that what i
would do is either put a label on it use a sharpie to label your sprayer so you know exactly what
they're for last thing you would want to do is have like an herbicide something that would kill
weeds and then you use that to you know spray your roses and you haven't cleaned your sprayer well
and then you've just killed your roses i think at some point every gardener has probably done
that before so we learn i this is a really cheap inexpensive one it's a one gallon container i got
it from our local feed and seed company i mean i think it was like under less than ten dollars
so you can just find these anywhere the big box stores i do like the gallon size because in these
kinds of applications it's small enough it's not a big huge backpack sprayer like maybe jerry has
that he uses for massive you know scale where he's doing things so get you a couple of cheap sprayers
label them for what their uses are so that way you don't ever have to worry about cross-contaminating
in your garden so both of the roses have been sprayed they have been treated so now we just
let them dry again i will have what i used linked down into the description below um again if i had
used my wrecked state on my regular regimen this probably never would have happened the other roses
that i have are not affected it was just like i said mainly this one which i believe spread over
to the next one so that's why it's so important to if you can catch it early is to eliminate it
this product again will kill those spider mites on contact and last for another 30 days i should
not have to do this kind of application again this year simply because of the time of year it is we
are middle of sept middle end of september by the time my 30 days go that is going to be towards the
end of october we'll have freezes the plants will go dormant and then i can go ahead like i
told you in the winter and just get all trim it back and then remove all of the foliage of course
we will do a video on that if you have questions about rose care i would really recommend that you
go to the david alston website they have fantastic tutorials on everything you can imagine on how to
care for your roses this is where i'm learning a lot from but seek out that really great rose care
information tutorials from reputable reputable sources whether it is a
gardener who really focuses on roses or those rose companies because they know
the best methods to take care of those roses find it learn from it take care of it move on
and all will be well as always thank you so much for gardening with creekside you
all have a fantastic day and we'll see you in the next video bye friends
you