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weedkiller concerns
"hazchem" wrote in message oups.com... Yesterday Croydon Council sub-contractors came and sprayed weedkiller outside my front door, on the paving slabs. This is despite my asking them not to and having a notice on the outside of my front door DO NOT SPRAY WEEDKILLER ANYWHERE NEAR THIS GARDEN. I am concerned about run- off when rain comes. I don't want weedkiller washing into my garden. There is a visible white residue where they sprayed. I don't want to put my pots on top of it. Today I got a reply via email, but I don't know if I should believe them or not.This is what they said:- "Sorry about the confusion regarding the spraying of the communal area with weedkiller. Please be assured that the chemical used becomes inert if it touches hard services or soil, it only has an effect on green tissue. Therefore it will be safe to place your pots back out, and it if rains or you wash off the chemical it will not damage your soil. Also it will have no adverse affect of the cat or anything the cat steps on or walks through." Does this make any sense at all? Which weedkiller could it be? There are no weeds on the paving slabs so it doesn't make any sense. It is too early in the year to be using glyphosate, I would think, and sodium chlorate would not become inert. I did ask them a year ago what the weedkiller was, but they never told me. I intend to ask them again, but first I wanted to hear what gardeners with experience of weedkillers think of what they have told me. Hazchem It will probably be something like Pathclear which is more than one as in a cocktail, it will almost certainly contain glyphosate but that will not be the only ingredient, good luck with the council took me 5 years to get them to stop, only then did the boundary hedge grow and we lost all the pond fish on two occasions, but they do at least use sprinkle bars now not sprays so it does not have as much wind drift. -- Charlie, gardening in Cornwall. http://www.roselandhouse.co.uk Holders of National Plant Collections of Clematis viticella (cvs) and Lapageria rosea |
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