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Weedkiller that can be used around vegetables

kazzafrenchkazzafrench Posts: 1
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Hi everyone, I'm looking for some advice, used to use Weedol 2 on my allotment but this has been discontinued.
Could anyone suggest an alternative? I used to use it between rows etc and it worked wonders? now down to one sachet :( 
any help would be gratefully accepted.  Thanks in advance
Karen
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  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    Weed membrane, cardboard, a hoe?  Wouldn't want to eat anything that has absorbed chemicals thru roots or leaves.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • Pete.8Pete.8 Posts: 11,340
    The only total weed killer available to gardeners now is glyphosphate (Roundup etc) which I only use on perennial weeds.
    But as Obelixx says above a hoe is your best friend for weeds in the veg garden

    Billericay - Essex

    Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.
    Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    I don't use weed killer ever, but I assume, if it has been discontinued, it was because it was found that it contained something injurious to your health.
    I wouldn't assume that another product you find will be any safer in the long run.

    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    I've just been out and used this on mine ... does the trick and quicker than a weedkiller

    https://www.wickes.co.uk/Wickes-Dutch-Hoe-Carbon-Steel---1405mm/p/500101

    and I use one of these https://www.harrodhorticultural.com/sneeboer-hand-hoe-pid7600.html for close work

    Cheaper and healthier than eating crops that have been grown in sprayed soil.  

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • Pete.8Pete.8 Posts: 11,340
    I wondered why Weedol2 (diquat) has been banned and came across several articles. It's awful stuff.
    This one gives good info. I'd not want to eat anything that has been touched by something so dodgy (tho I imagine that unknowingly I probably am)  I buy organic oats for my daily porridge as non-organic are usually 'ripened' by spraying with glyphosphate - YUK!

    Billericay - Essex

    Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.
    Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
  • Blue OnionBlue Onion Posts: 2,995
    Wow Pete, I didn't know that.  Guess we're switching to organic oats now.  
    Utah, USA.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Not just oats ... oilseed rape and most cereals have been treated with glyphosate as a desiccant pre-harvest for some time ... not sure what the current situation is. 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • Pete.8Pete.8 Posts: 11,340
    I'm pretty sure it was you who alerted me to that fact some while ago @Dovefromabove I switched to organic oats immediately. I've had porridge+bits for brekkie for as long as I can remember 


    Billericay - Essex

    Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.
    Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    I gave up buying potatoes - except occasional organic ones - when I saw that prior to harvesting the farmers sprayed the fields behind us to kill off the top growth and, presumably stop blight, then left them a couple of weeks to go brown and dry before they harvested.   Only use oats in crumbles and biscuits and sometimes bread so organic oats for me.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    The desiccation of potato haulm used to be done by spraying with sulphuric acid ... with consequent bad effects on wildlife of all sorts ... the change to glyphosate was supposed to be beneficial?  :/

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





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