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Weedkiller that can be used around vegetables

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  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    edited May 2018
    Not glyphosate on spuds as it would go down to the tubers.   I suspect it was a relative of Weedol. 

    I did have to have words with that farmer the year he sprayed his winter wheat the day after I planted my first windbreak and bed in that garden.  I sprayed what I could to wash it but still lost a few shrubs and most of the perennials.   He was more careful about wind drift after that.
    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
    edited May 2018
    Whoops!  @Obelixx :s   Yes ... my mistake ... I should concentrate on one thing at once instead of listening to the radio ... it's Diquat that's used most often. 

    http://www.cpm-magazine.co.uk/2017/07/19/potato-desiccation-burning-question-diquat/

    The approval for its use on potatoes expires this summer ... not sure what happens next. 

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





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