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  • #16
    Warning glyphosate

    Only to be used on Amenity paths not on vegetable plots.

    Doctors and residents living in GM soy producing areas have reported serious health effects from glyphosate spraying, including high rates of birth defects as well as infertility, stillbirths, miscarriages, and cancers.

    Scientific studies collected in the new report confirm links between exposure to glyphosate and premature births, miscarriages, cancer, and damage to DNA and reproductive organ cells.

    GMO studies reveal that novel pesticide residues will be present in food and feed and may pose grave health risks to those consuming them
    Studying plant pathogens for over 50 years and glyphosate for over 20 years, has noticed an increase in pathogens associated with the herbicide. In an interview with the Organic and Non-GMO Report last May, he discussed his team�s conclusions that glyphosate can, �significantly increase the severity of various plant diseases, impair plant defence to pathogens and diseases, and immobilize soil and plant nutrients rendering them unavailable for plant use.�

    This is because �glyphosate stimulates the growth of fungi and enhances the virulence of pathogens.� In the last 15-18 years, the number of plant pathogens has increased, he told the Non-GMO Report. �There are more than 40 diseases reported with use of glyphosate, and that number keeps growing as people recognize the association (between glyphosate and disease).�

    It is urgent to examine whether the side-effects of glyphosate use may have facilitated the growth of this pathogen, or allowed it to cause greater harm to weakened plant and Animal hosts. It is well-documented that glyphosate promotes soil pathogens and is already implicated with the increase of more than 40 plant diseases; it dismantles plant defences by chelating vital nutrients; and it reduces the bioavailability of nutrients which in turn can cause animal disorders

    We had a chemical Arnold Schwarzenegger on a plot in our allotment sprayed everything, fertilized growmore everything, limed everything, planted everything, grew sod all... and he wondered why?....
    do a little every day...
    keep it organic and taste and see the difference..

    http://allotmentveggrower.blogspot.com/

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    • #17
      hi thanx for all the replys i think after the articles and the advice i've been given, im going to get rid of the soil in the polytunnel which is the only place i used it that is to have veg grown in it. I did use a little on the out side of the tunnel about 4 foot from one of my veg beds. would the weed killer have been washed into that bed also? and is there a test to find out ? thanx for all your help and i will be using nothing but time and effort from now on thanx paul

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      • #18
        This is the stuff I use

        Total control of horse / mares tail - Weed Killers - Total Weed Killers - Kurtail 0.5LTS - Progreen Weed Control Solutions, suppliers of agricultural, horticultural and amenity chemicals

        I had a friend of mine (who is an ecotoxicologist) look into the active ingredient before using it. He tells me it is not a posion, but when it is absorbed by the foliage of a plant, it locks into the cells and prevents the plant from photosynthesising, so if it can't absorb light it can't grow and it withers, dies and dries out. Worked a treat on the allotment I took on last May which had huge patches of thistles, marestail and couch grass. Very little grew back and then nothing returned after a second spraying. Will be interesting if anything pops up in the spring. I even sprayed it around the base of my apple trees and it is fine so long as you don't get it on the foliage, which is the plants sole means of taking it up.

        The only downside to it is that when the weed dries up you have to be so careful you don't spill its seed everywhere when you pull it up as I had a lot of fat hen grow back as a result.

        It's not cheap but from the bottle I bought, I sprayed about two thirds of my half plot the first time, then sprayed the survivors again, and I still have a dribble left, so it's reasonable value if you have an extreme weed problem to deal with, as I did to begin with.

        If it can get rid of marestail, the next thing I'm going to try it on is the ivy on next door's garage which is making a bid for freedom into my garden!! Damn stuff, who in their right mind plants ivy....grrrrrr
        Are y'oroight booy?

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        • #19
          Originally posted by Vince G View Post
          who in their right mind plants ivy....grrrrrr
          Anyone who wants to quickly cover an ugly old garage?
          It's superb nesting & food for birds & butterflies. You just need to keep it tidy
          All gardeners know better than other gardeners." -- Chinese Proverb.

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          • #20
            Originally posted by Vince G View Post
            This is the stuff I use
            Mmmmm. We've discussed that before on the forum:

            http://www.growfruitandveg.co.uk/gra...ils_53349.html

            It's been used on genetically-modified, herbicide-tolerant spring oilseed rape, if anyone's interested in looking that up I started here: CRD | Search Results
            All gardeners know better than other gardeners." -- Chinese Proverb.

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