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Fruit bushes with bindweed treated with glyphosate
Pat Johnstone
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I grow various fruit bushes including red, white and blackcurrants. I have not sprayed or used any toxic materials on them preferring benevolent neglect. However, my husband hates bindweed and has been using roundup in other parts of the garden. This morning I went to pick some whitecurrants which grow near the flower border and noticed that there was ded bindweed (very sticky to touch) and that all the leaves on the branch of the current had shrivelled up and gone brown. Will the bush be poisoned completely; will the current crop be toxic; and will the flowers on the bush be toxic to bees next year?
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Confession time for your husband first - if he has sprayed the bindweed it is likely to have gotten on to the currant bushes too. If so then it is all over for them.
Me, I'd whack my husband with a heavy hoe until my arms are too tired to lift the hoe again, if he did something like that. But I am obviously a very excitable person.