I spray for disease, too. Blackspot is THE disease, here. I'm just starting my second year with Rock & Roll. Mine seems a little more disease-resistant that average for hybrid teas (yes, I know it's a grandiflora, but whatever.) Still it needs spraying. Scentimental I also used to grow. Royal blackspot magnet, and the blooms wuld drop their petals after only two days? But it made up for it by being prolific and fragrant. R&R is terrificly fragrant and much better form than scentimental. It also holds together a little longer, maybe 3 to 4 days; still no trophy for bloom holding power but an improvement. But my first summer with it the coloring was all muddled; no striping and just kind of blotchy little poorly formed blooms. I think it just dislikes really hot temperatures. But the attractive, striped blooms returned in the cooler autumn, and right now the first spring blooms look great. I imagine it would do great in your climate. I'm still hoping mine will tolerate the Gulf Coast summer better with more maturity. We'll see.

Marcia & Cangrow: Thank you for your responses, but I think you missed the point of my question which is: how quickly will the toilet tissue roll biograde? I used some thin cardboard this summer as the base for a new lasagna type bed, and it took a couple of months to rot. Would I be restricting the growth of the root systems of plants (like tomatoes and parsley) for two months by using the toilet tissue roll, which is in my opinion, not much different from the cardboard I used in bed this summer? I used some newspaper pots last summer and by the time I was ready to plant out, they were practically falling apart. But the toilet tissue rolls are ready made and uniform, and I just thought I might save a little time using them, if they would give me a favourable result: i.e. breakdown qickly enough for my root systems to 'spread their wings'. I hope I have explained myself. Thank you. Northerner.

Yeah, I am the Easy Roll worm bin guy. I have been getting lots of plan downloads, and hope to film a new series on it. I also get orders for completed bins, but plywood is a little heavy and drives up shipping (which is why I also make available a partial kit). I am amazed how long plywood lasts, as I have some of these bins that have stayed wet (without paint) for two years and still holding up!

Thoughts from an older mother: I think mothers today are making a bit of a mistake in not giving their babies enough "tummy time' ( as is it called today). What seems to me to be the lateness at which babies are rolling over "from front to back" as recorded on-line, is due to this. Having raised four children, now aged mid-teen to 30, before the "no tummy sleeping" rule, I think this new rule is the reason. My first grandchild just rolled from tummy to back at 3 weeks... and although this is very early for any era, the muscular development needed to do this is not going to happen as easily for the baby if babies are always on their backs. Reason: neck, shoulder, and arm muscles cannot get the best workout, which babies like and need to do (There is not a lot else they can do physically in their first weeks after all (when not sleeping and eating). And getting that kind of exercise is much harder for them if they are always on their backs! Perhaps the babies who do not like being on their tummies later might have liked it more if they had spent more time in that position earlier..which babies of only a generation ago did.... In conversations with other new grandmothers we are reaching the conclusion that time constantly on one's back delays the development of these muscle groups... In fact babies will be able to safely hold their heads up much sooner is they spend more time on their tummies from the beginning. So, my suggestion, when you are not feeding or changing, talking or singing to that darling baby, put him on his tummy! (Just make sure, following todays rules, that if he goes to sleep you roll him over to his back before leaving him alone!) This are just my thoughts, however, and there is no reason this matters in a big way. And certainly there are advantages to a baby who doesn't roll over, as once they can go front-to-back, and then back-to-front, they can roll off of things, as well as right across the floor! (which my eldest did withing an hour of first back-to-front roll---then pulled something heavy, which happened to be dangling from a table (10 feet away from starting position) right on to his head!) Oh the things we learn from our first children!! ( Ended up with two degrees from Ivy League schools, despite me!)