"Bob Bauer" <bobbauer@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> This group was once such a vital and interesting place to discuss
> roses.
>
> Do you think that it is possible bring this group back to life?
>
> Or do you think that the people who destroyed this group are still
> willing to take the time and energy to destroy it again?
>
> If they are still there with the will to ruin, then there is no
> point,
> but if not, and they have moved on with their lives, it would be
> great to try to create a new vital rose talk community here.
>
> I would surely love to bring rose discussions back here, seeing that
> the USENET format of embedded message trees is highly superior to
> the
> lame and extremely clunky email or web lists such as are those used
> by
> yahoo groups, gardenweb or Rosarian's Corner.
>
> The strength of USENET is that you can see exactly where you are in
> any thread and read only what interests you without wading through a
> bunch of messages that say stuff like "ditto".
>
> If it is possible, I would like to give it a shot with you folks.
> And
> I can bring others over here as well by pointing to it on the front
> page of my website (which gets pretty heavy traffic of people
> interested in rose gardening and rose varieties).
>
> Bob Bauer
> http://www.rose-roses.com/
Hi Bob -
Nice to see you posting again. I've tried
to stay active here, along with a few other
folk. I'm certainly willing to get into
discussions and hope you can generate
some interest from your contacts. I agree
with you about the USENET format.
So here's my comment and question:
I seem to have trouble with crown gall or
canker. And it's not because I hoe around
my roses and do any damage. At most I'll
hand-pull weeds. I suspect the damage is
from insects. Even one of my large Teas
had a crown gall on it, although I think it
will do fine. It's the smaller, weaker roses
that succomb.
Not all of my roses get this disease, but
it seems to occur with greater frequency
than I would expect. Whenever a rose
dies, I do replace the soil, so I'm not
passing the disease on that way, and I'm
pretty careful about sterilizing tools after
pruning around a gall or canker.
If anyone has any hints other than making
my garden into a toxic dump*, I'm willing
to give it a try.
Gail
near San Antonio TX Zone 8
*I heart my bees. :)
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