Aminopyralid Contamination

colt

Hi a fellow plot holder thinks his tomatos are being affected. When he planted his toms he dug the plating hole and then lined with horse muck. What he wants to know is if he dug the toms up and replanted into pots with just multi purpose compost would this do any good?

His plants are fine apart from the top 12 inch so he is hoping that if he did the above would the plants recover?

Thanks

westiea

Hi

Well the phrase 'residual herbicide' and 'hormone weedkiller' rings huge alarm bells with me tbh. I would chuck them. The herbicide is extremely persistant - see here and only recently licensed as I understand it.

I would not risk my familys health even though they say that there is no problem on they're website, I would personally be suspicious.

If he thinks it is contaminated manure then he needs to report it to Dow AgroSciences at [EMAIL="ukhotline@dow.com"]ukhotline@dow.com[/EMAIL].

realfood

There are a few reports coming in now of aminopyralid contaminated manure. There is information and photos on this page:- http://www.growyourown.info/page164.html
If you have this problem, please use the link on the page to glallotments to report this problem, so that we can keep a watch on how extensive it is.
The message must be to always do the "bean" test, as shown on the above page, before you spread any manure on your ground.