Hi All,
A ray of hope here.
We used the manure on heavy clay and to aid breaking the clay up on the bed, OH rotovated the council compost. manure & clay to a really fine tilth. We forgot to settle the soil again before planting Anya's. Ok, we lost all the beans in that bed and the photo of our Anya top growth looking curled and stunted is appearing on websites all over the place. We left the potatos to do their thing & got on with the other jobs.
Well, we have a harvest of potatoes! They are horribly knobbly, not like the Anya from non contaminated areas, so I showed them to a couple of people on site & their response was, that's what happens to Anya's when they're starved of nutrients.
OK, they're still contaminated, but at least the plants managed to recover enough to produce a goodly load of tubers.
What I take from this is that the oxygen we introduced by tilling the soil & not knocking it back down again has accelerated the breakdown of the weedkiller. I did wonder when I started to see dock like weeds coming up but being cynical, I just tought that was the icing on the cake - kill the spuds but not the weeds.......
It may be worth "fluffing" up your soil with a Tiller or such like and see if that accelerates the breakdown of the nasties - gott abe worth a go.
Cheers
