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- From: "Kieran &/or Donna" <holycow@frontiernet.net>
- To: "North American Fruit Explorers" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
- Subject: Re: [NAFEX] herbicide residues?
- Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2009 22:39:47 -0500
I've been wondering who to ask about this. We
got a nice load of horse manure this spring and I made sure to give the peppers
plenty of it. When the pepper plants began growing twisty and stunted, I
looked for more on the herbicide that devastated gardens across Britain a
couple years back. The stuff is being sprayed on pastures and hayfields to
control broad leaved weeds like thistles. Turns out that the plants most
bothered by it are:
There are some photos of affected potato plants
here, look like our peppers but different.
The trouble is that we have had so much trouble
with boron deficiency that this could simply be more of the same. To
complicate things, the bedding was wood chips that appeared to be painted.
My son says this is from a sawmill that applied primer before cutting the wood
to length. He said it was nothing to worry about, probably just titanium
but that it might raise the pH. Great, that's all we need to make boron
less available. The potatoes were grown on soil that probably has a lower
pH. Plus, part of boron deficiency is that B is used to transport Calcium,
so it looks like calcium deficiency, and if the pH has been raised by something
other than Ca, then Ca might become less available.
Anyway, has anyone had any
trouble with this herbicide in manure or compost applied to gardens? I
decided this was the final reason to get some fainting goats to control brush
plus supply safe manure. I went to to farm supply stores looking for hay,
and both places told me there was not weed one in their hay. I
looked, it was pure grass. Around here, the usual hayfield has lots of
broad leaved plants in it. So I figured the stuff was sprayed.
Fortunately a client volunteered to bring some hay with weeds in it. It's
like picking up bags of grass clippings. If the lawn doesn't have weeds in
it, I skip it. I've seen tomato plants wilt within 2 hours when
herbicide contaminated grass clippings were spread around
them. Donna
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[NAFEX] Testing for pesticde residues,
Erdman, James, 08/19/2009
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Re: [NAFEX] Testing for pesticde residues,
Road's End Farm, 08/19/2009
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Re: [NAFEX] herbicide residues?,
Kieran &/or Donna, 08/19/2009
- Re: [NAFEX] herbicide residues?, Mark Angermayer, 08/20/2009
- Re: [NAFEX] Testing for pesticde residues, Kieran &/or Donna, 08/19/2009
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Re: [NAFEX] Testing for pesticde residues,
Kieran &/or Donna, 08/20/2009
- Re: [NAFEX] Testing for pesticde residues, Lori Rizzo, 08/20/2009
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Re: [NAFEX] herbicide residues?,
Kieran &/or Donna, 08/19/2009
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Re: [NAFEX] Testing for pesticde residues,
Road's End Farm, 08/19/2009
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