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["Lori Rizzo" <larizzo@charter.net>]

Interesting – used a neighbor’s horse manure for the first time this year in one of the gardens, and all the peppers died, half the tomatoes, and the corn was extremely stunted and most never produced.  Luckily, the other plot panned out well.  To this point, I’ve been blaming it on the excessive rains we had this year – and the fact the manure wasn’t that well composed when I spread it.  Also, I figured the other plot drained better. However, I didn’t use the horse manure on the other plot.  I’ll have to test the manure out and see, I guess.  This is a nice source, though I’d rather use rabbit & llama manure, if I can find a good source at a low cost.

 

Lori – 7b, Maryville, TN

 

Lori Rizzo, RN BSN MBA

Health Care Quality Improvement

Pet Training & Behavior Improvement!

Maryville, TN

larizzo@charter.net

 

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From: nafex-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org [mailto:nafex-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Kieran &/or Donna
Sent: Thursday, August 20, 2009 12:07 AM
To: North American Fruit Explorers
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Testing for pesticde residues

 

When animals are fed hay that has been treated with either picloram or clopyralid, these chemicals pass quickly through the animal without significant degradation and end up in the manure via the urine, usually within a day or two. Manure application to agricultural production fields is a beneficial and common practice. However, if sensitive crops (i.e. soybeans, lentils, peas, legumes, potatoes, tomatoes or peppers) are planted in fields where contaminated manure has been applied, injury or crop death can occur. Injured plants can exhibit twisting (epinasty), leaf cupping, and loss of apical dominance, resulting in short plants and abnormal side shoots.

 

Yes, our pepper plants show all these symptoms!  Donna