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  

ps if i've posted in the wrong place i'm very sorry

[colt]

[davyw1]

Aminopyralid contaminates the straw and remains there until it is completely broken down .
The first sign on tomatoes is the top of the plant going yellow then the leaves start to roll in. Once the plant is infected that is it your mate may as well get rid of them.

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[sunloving]

We did the same a bout twp years ago, they will continue to grow and produce fruit (but much less than normal) and you get these very pointed fruits forming.

Would you really want to eat toms from a plant contaminated with weed killer.

Id get down the car boot sale , you can get some fab varieites at the moment for 50p a go. and if you cosset them a bit they will catch up.

We found that even after we removed the manure from the greenhouse, we still got effects on the tomatoes grown the next season.

Dow are supposed to take away any contaimated manure that you have, as it is toxic waste and should not go into the green council collection.

All the manure issues around this were in the pests and diseases thread.Also check out Sue Garrets website for more info.

http://glallotments.co.uk/ACManure.aspx

Good luck and send Dow an email to thier manure matters website - as they still maintain that not many gardeners were affected! grr

x sunloving

[realfood]

Yes, I would get rid of them and start again.
For more information on aminopyralid contamination of manure, see this page:- http://www.growyourown.info/page164.html
For a full history and locations of known manure contamination, visit the Green Lane Allotment site at http://glallotments.co.uk/ACManure.aspx

If you know of other contamination, add the information to their site, so that we have the evidence that this is such a serious widespread problem, even though the authorities keep on downplaying the problem.

The only way to prevent this disaster happening to you, is to make searching enquiries of the manure supplier as to the provenance, to ensure that the animals have not been fed on grass treated with this weed killer. Many suppliers of manure, such as stables, will be unable to confirm that their animals have not been fed with contaminated feed. If you cannot get absolute confirmation that the manure has not been contaminated with aminopyralid, it would be better to avoid that source of manure.

[hippydave]

a guy on our site got some manure that is contaminated  and his spuds are all deformed, he dosnt want to eat them and is going to dig them up and dispose of them what he wants to know is are there any flowers that he can grow that wont be affected.
any advice will be great and ill it on.

Cheers Dave.

[Gbar]

The manure matters web site provides some good advice on how to deal with this manure.  I understand that many people will not want to eat the produce from plants grown in this manure, but the advice given by the chemical regulation directorate is that they it is safe to do so - its a personal choice.

[glallotments]

Aminopyralid contaminates the straw and remains there until it is completely broken down .
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Just to add that if the chemical is used correctly straw shouldn't be affected as the herbicide isn't licenced for use on cereal crops but that hay could be affected.

I had hoped that we wouldn't hear about the problem this year but already reports of problems have started - I've added the ones that I know about to a page on my website here http://glallotments.co.uk/Manureistheproblemback.aspx Get in touch if you want me to add your experiences.

[chriscross1966]

Aminopyralid treated hay and the manure made from it is not supposed to leave the originating farm I thought..... trouble is having known some farmers I'd trust them with a decent broad-leaf herbicide about as far as I can throw them.......

[glallotments]

The problem is that manure stacked pre new stewardship will still be in the system!