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Seven dust - Applied a month ago - Still toxic or not ?
On Tue, 22 Jul 2008 19:04:13 -0400, Paul E. Lehmann
wrote: Kay Lancaster wrote: "Paul J. Dudley" wrote: Last month ( mid June ) I had applied Seven dust to my grapevine due to Japanese Beatle infestation. I applied by hand ( gloved ). I grabbed a handfull at a time and just tossed it across the whole of the foliage and grape clusters. Didn't you read the directions... that's the dumbest method for applying Sevin. The dust was given to me in a mason jar by my girlfriends father, complete with no instructions. Just toss it across the whole of the vine like he does his peach trees. So that is what I did. You'll probably take this as more sarcastic criticism, but stories like this are why I'm not sure most people should be allowed to use other than a flyswatter as a pesticide. You accepted an unlabeled jar of unknown chemical of unknown concentration, with no instructions, and you didn't know how to apply it. How do you know it was carbaryl, and not, say, Paris green? Or maybe one of the herbicides? Or flour? Some day, a stunt like this is going to bite you badly. This might be that. Why don't you offer constructive advice instead of bashing. I would be willing to bet YOU are equally guilty of being ignorant on a specific topic equally as hazardous or even more so. I did, Dippy, in my first post. If you're going to use a pesticide, make sure you follow the label directions. No label. Mason jar. This is playing chemical Russian Roulette. And it's a violation of US federal law. And if this wasn't in the US, then it's likely to have violated the laws of most other countries. Not to mention the law of common sense: you don't keep toxic materials in a food container. Especially not an unlabeled food container. Learn from your mistakes. If you can. |
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