rose blackspot

[lassieinfife]

I have a climbing rose that has developed black spot...the trouble is that it shades my patio fish pond so i cant spray it with anything that would harm the fish...anyone recomend any thing short of digging said rose out?

[gardeninginagale]

Blackspot harms nothing other than the rose, so it won't affect anything else round about. Quite right not to spray, if fish are near by.

Blackspot never killed a rose, just slowed it down. Pick off the affected leaves, because it spreads slowly. Burn them, don't compost them, because the spores live on. Feed the rose and mulch it, preferably with your own garden compost. But if you have not hopped on the organic bus, just buy rose fertiliser from the garden centre. Feed it and love it. It will survive.

Please don't dig it out, because it won't kill the fish.