Weedkiller problem

[lottie lou]

Just returned from a couple of weeks away and found that the haulms of my spuds growing in dustbins for Christmas spuds had disappeared/rotted away.  Initially I thought it was blight.  My neighbour on the lottie asked me yesterday if I knew who had sprayed the path between our plots with weedkiller.  I mentioned my spuds and was told that blight would not have killed the haulms that quickly and it must have been the drift of the weedkiller.  Problem is I put the soil from one of the bins onto the prepared bed for my garlic.  I am aware that Monsanto claim that their Roundup ceases to work once it hits the soil but .......  Should I risk my garlic in that bed?

[lottie lou]

[ACE]

If it was drift from the wind you would have seen everything else dead in the area. I find that very unlikely. Find out who done the weedkilling. It cannot be done in a place used by the public  without it being recorded, which should give the date weather conditions including windspeed and direction, amount used, chemical used and the percentage used per hectare.

It stops working once it hits the soil, so much so that we used to have to carry a bag of dry soil to eat if we were stupid enough to get it into our mouths. So your garlic will be alright.

[laurieuk]

Surely if was blight or weedkiller the dead foliage would still be there even after a fortnight. A plot near mine suddenly got blight in their potatoes and within a couple of days the foliage was all but dead but remained there. Some folks on our plots use much more weedkiller than I like but the old foliage remains. I am not sure who is meant to record who uses what but no one does our way.