"Bobbie" wrote in message
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wafflycat wrote:

"Bobbie" wrote in message
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David in Normandy wrote:
mogga wrote:

So can I still eat the spuds if it's glycowhatsit or other
plantkiller? Is it worth digging them up?


Can't give a definitive answer. The ultra safe answer is not to eat
them and dig them up for the compost heap. However, I've eaten some
potatoes from plants that had a "glancing blow" while spraying weeds
alongside. The plants survived but were poorly for a while. The
potatoes themselves looked superficially ok and tasted normal, but I
noticed they did not keep well.

However, you can't be sure it was glyphosate or something more
obnoxious? On that basis I wouldn't eat them and just compost them.

The normal practice is to keep different sprayers. One specifically for
weedkillers. Alternatively, to always thoroughly wash out after using a
weedkiller.


Better still, give up using chemicals and pesticides. Go Green, go
organic. So much better for you and the environment.
I have a large garden, and a my husband has a good sized vegetable
garden, we don't use any chemicals. The veg are doing well and so are
the flower beds.

Bobbie

Water is a chemical. I hope you haven't given up using that ;-)

Ah, butt.! We have rain water butts wherever we can put a drainage pipe.
We use them for perforated hose irrigation in places and always use rain
water whenever lime is not recommended. John has also utilised rain water
butts to set up a kind of capillary watering system for the green house to
water the tomatoes and cucumbers. We do live in a hard water area.
I do drink tap water, will I die?

Bobbie;-)

Be careful, you never know.. ;-)

http://www.dhmo.org/


Sorry, it's one of my nitpicks.. this organic doesn't use chemicals. Apart
from the fact that *everything* is a chemical, organic does allow the use of
certain 'man-made' 'chemicals' I'm all for using the minimum and whenever
possible working with Mother Nature rather than fighting against her and am
against the *reliance* upon 'chemicals' but this blanket "don't use
chemicals' approach is plain wrong.