WEED KILLER
 

HELLO , can anybody help with my problem
I HAVE , splashed some Roundup on my potatoes
And the hauls are now brown and dead

THE POTATOES are they safe to eat or be destroyed
THE weed killer knocks just about everything in its path


...................Leslie

WEED KILLER
 

leslie wrote:
HELLO , can anybody help with my problem
I HAVE , splashed some Roundup on my potatoes
And the hauls are now brown and dead

THE POTATOES are they safe to eat or be destroyed
THE weed killer knocks just about everything in its path


...................Leslie

As Roundup kills the roots (and yours is a *root* crop), doesn't that give
you a clue as to the risk of eating the spuds?

I wouldn't eat 'em that's for sure - might feed them the neighbours bloody
barking bitch though if I thought the nuisance would eat them

WEED KILLER
 

On 12/09/2013 17:18, leslie wrote:
HELLO , can anybody help with my problem
I HAVE , splashed some Roundup on my potatoes
And the hauls are now brown and dead

Are you sure it wasn't blight that did for them?

THE POTATOES are they safe to eat or be destroyed
THE weed killer knocks just about everything in its path

I would probably have chopped them down and harvested immediately after
accidentally spraying them. It is a systemic weedkiller so after a
couple of weeks it has translocated throughout the plant.

Personally I wouldn't be too bothered about a trace of glyphosate in the
crop - I'd be much more wary of the surfactants. YMMV

Unless you are a green plant or a mosquito glyphosate is not all that
dangerous. But you should be more careful applying pesticides.

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Regards,
Martin Brown