Just had an email from Nigel Farage our MEP who was kicking up a real fuss with the PSD The PSD have announced that Dow have withdrawn it from sale and PSD have suspended its licence: A snippet of the note from PSD: "Dow have now indicated that they are withdrawing products which contain aminop...

and it's also got into the Daily Mail today: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1033933/Vegetables-ruined-polluted-manure-bought-farms-used-industrial-strength-weedkiller.html Headline: Vegetables ruined by polluted manure bought from farms which used industrial strength weedkiller Unfortunatel...

According to the number of people contacting my web site Surrey seems to be a hotspot! ... I am in Surrey and hoped that all keen local gardeners would have found out about this problem by now, but no! I emailed my local allotment society over a week ago with a synopsis of the problem and links to ...

You can listen to yesterday's GQT here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/aod/networks/radio4/aod.shtml?radio4/gqt glallotments: it's interesting to learn what the RHS say about 'indicator plants' - I'm not convinced this is going to be a practical test for the majority. I want to do something for peace of...

Just had a quick look around my veg patch this morning and was thinking how good my onions are looking after a bit of rain, and suddenly the penny dropped; I spread this contaminated compost all over my patch, so even those veg that don't look affected must contain this chemical residue. I guess I n...

Chantal & Alan, thanks for the info. I also found a couple of small sections on how to sprout Soya Beans in "The Veg & Herb Expert".

It appears that comprehensive testing of aminopyralid was done in Canada. If you are interested there are 87 pages of results HERE Thanks Alan thats a good find, it is very detailed to say the least, but there is a useful snippet at 6.1.4 page 30, says that the most sensitive plant is Soybean. So S...

Well I'm also rooting some tomato sideshoots which should take a few days, then try them in the contaminated compost. I am hoping that should short-cut the testing time, to perhaps two weeks before the symptoms show. This will not work next spring though when we all need to know if our new batches o...

glallotments wrote:I am told courgettes and marrows thrive and are unaffected. I don't know if this means they don't absorb residue and are safe to eat or they just aren't affected.

Well my first courgettes look too good to throw away so plan to eat some tonight, if I don't post here tomorrow you'll all know why!

Geoff: yes I have contacted the compost manufacturer, who said the product is made using hay mainly sourced from MoD contracts. I guess that the MoD needs to keep weeds down on lots of pathways and amenity areas on its land, so they probably use this selective weedkiller. I had never realised that c...

Some of our potatoes are growing out of the problem ... Yes my potatoes look to be recovering, I used 50% my own compost mixed with 50% contaminated compost so that might have diluted the weedkiller affect. I dug up a couple of roots at the weekend and the tubers look OK and quite a good size and n...

Hello everyone, thought I'd register here as glallotments is doing sterling work to publicise this problem. Just to let you all know that I'm affected by this problem having bought several bags of an 'Organic' compost. All my tomatoes show the classic symptoms, my potatoes & beans are similar. I...