idiot me

[anthonyjb]

I have just watered my toms with feed

but the feed was ferdon by mistake

is all lost

Anthony

[chris]

What is ferdon out of interest?

[Two_Sheds]

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[Glutton4...]

Do you mean Verdone - weedkiller?

[binley100]

oh bugger..........

[snohare]

Is that the one which has 2,4-D, or the one which contains MCPA ? Either way, really nasty stuff. (2,4-D is a dioxin near enough, MCPA I don't remember details but it rings an alarm bell in my mind which with my poor memory is really not positive !)
Even supposing your plants survive, I would not eat the fruit, and frankly I would discard the soil. The manufacturers' claims about how well the product breaks down are usually misleading or erroneous.
The more I learn about these chemicals, the more I think they should just be labelled in one category: "killers".

[reetnproper]

Ouch! Personally, if it is Verdone you've used, I'd consign the lot to the general waste bin. Sympathies.

Reet
x

[anthonyjb]

idot me

Do you mean Verdone - weedkiller?

yes thats the stuff lawn weed killer what a............... i am

thank you all


Anthony

[Ja9]

what a shame,you won't do that again.
(I once put 10x the concentration of fish medicine in the fish tank and came back later to find them all dead and floating!!)

[Aberdeenplotter]

Is verdone not a contact weedkiller? If that is the case, I assume you watered the soil and didn't wet the foliage at all so hopefully you will be ok.

[Florence Fennel]

I hope AP has given you a bit of hope Anthony, good luck.

[Alison]

Personally I'd not want to eat anything that might have been contaminated with it but I don't use weed killers like that anywhere on my plot let alone anywhere near crops as I've very cautious.

[rustylady]

Found this link - one of the ingredients is MCPA - Verdone Extra 1 Litre Liquid Concentrate Lawn Weeder: Amazon.co.uk: Garden & Outdoors As Aberdeenplotter says, as long as you didn't get it on the leaves your plants may survive.

[chris]

Same as me Alison, regardless. I'm not keen on my neighbours spraying weeds either.

I smelt someone spraying round up (hate the smell of it) at my allotment the other day... great, if I can smell it it's definately blowing my way.

I'd probably keep them away from each other in storage, Anthony (weed killers / feeds). Different sides of a garage/shed for example.

[Vagetarian]

I was just last night reading about how stressing a tomato plant might force it to ripen sooner. It was suggested that you could starve it of water or even take a spade to it and chop off its roots below ground.

So, if your plants do survive this you might find yourself extra specially lucky!