Did you get all of the roots out?

Jessica you will probably get a variety of answers so I suggest reading some to find what you think is the best answer for you.

Locally Extensions services based on info from Texas A&M agricultural research says you can replant in 10-14 days. RRD is carried by a mite that will vacate a rose once it starts to die. If you have gotten all the roots out then you can replant.

Since the mites blow in the wind and can be carried a long way you may or may not have damage to other roses in your yard. If you had any diseased KO that had canes touching other roses and you didn't take them out you should watch the other roses for disease very carefully. In addition to the mites blowing in the wind they walk from cane to cane.

How did you determine that they had rose rosette virus (and how many bushes were infected)?

stillanntn6b is our resident RRV expert, so, at a minimum, please answer her question. stillanntn6b's RRD eBook

My husband pulled all of the diseased bushes- roots included- and we had about 30 plants. Plants have been burned.

henry_kuska: they had the typical, red, "witches broom" presentation, with entirely too many thorns.

How many total roses do you have? Were the diseased ones all in one area - i.e. close to one another? If they were close you may try planting other non rose plants in every other hole as spacers. How long were the diseased plants allowed to exist? If they were there for awhile, you may have other infected roses that were close to the infected ones that (although infected) have not yet exhibited symptoms.

I am asking these questions so that others can benefit from your very unfortunate experience.

Two very recent links:

http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/pp317

http://www.amerinursery.com/plants/keeping-track-of-rose-rosette-disease/

Have you checked upwind for a source of contageon? If a neighbor has a climbing or big rose or a field has a wild rose infected with RRD, the chances are that the vector mites will be dropped in your yard again, and the sad cycle will repeat.

There are places that winds will always drop mites, so long as the mites are sourced upwind.
What you need to do it try to reduce the chances of repetition.

It's not virus in the soil. It's the possibility that there were roots left behind and rose roots to graft onto other roses roots and spread their problems.

County agents? Some are good. Some are the folks who fifteen years ago published that Rose Rosette seldom affects cultivated roses so back then it was no danger.

I would plant some annuals this year and plant roses next year on its spot.