Risk to my lottie from neighbour wanting to spray with roundup?

[muckdiva]

I'm probably being a bit neurotic, but my new neighbour has just told me he intends to spray his complete plot with roundup before starting digging. He did say he was waiting for a non windy day (breathed a sigh of relief that he mentioned this ), but I'm still wondering if there's any risk to my early crops if he does this. I haven't got huge amounts on the go, broadies, potatoes etc, but having read Lavenderblue's post about her fruit trees being damanged, would prefer to avoid casualties on my plot.
All advice welcome.

[rustylady]

At least he's told you what he intends to do, and has said that he's waiting for a suitable time to do it. As long as there's no spray drift your crops should be fine, and it does sound as if he knows what he's doing.

[HeyWayne]

If you're really worried, you could ask him when he's doing it and make sure you're there at the same time with a watering can in hand to rinse anything off you think might get oversprayed.

[SarzWix]

Have you got a big sheet of polythene or a big cloche or anything like that? If so, you could drape it over stuff when he's spraying, just to be on the safe side? Even fleece would probably be a help, but you'd have to whip it off and rinse it out afterwards!

[sewer rat]

I assume that he will be using a knapsack sprayer - if so you could ask that he fits a spray cone over the nozzle - this allows him to spray more accurately and prevents spray drift.

[Alice]

I don't think you can stop him doing what he wants to do on his place Muckdiva. He does sound sound as if he is responsible in not wanting to spray when it can drift on to your place.
I would ask him to agree a date and time with you, and go round and spray all your plants afterwards - just in case.

[crichmond]

Hi Muckdiva

I would be tempted to ask if he wouldnt mind using a watering can to apply the glyphosate rather than a sprayer as even the slightest breeze can blow onto your plants.

When I took my plot on the whole plot was 3 to 4 foot deep in weeds so I used a strimmer to cut it all down and waited a couple of days for new growth then I used glyphosate to kill the weeds but I used a watering can as a sprayers droplets are too fine and blow onto things other than the weeds too easily.

[Two_Sheds]

I would suggest exactly the same as Crichmond. Get him to use a watering can - it is far more controllable than a sprayer.

My neighbour sprayed his plot 4 years ago, and it drifted over half of mine. All my crops looked like they'd been splashed with bleach.

[Snadger]

Young potato and tomato foliage is particularily vunerable to glphosate damage, so beware!

If you haven't got much in the ground just cover it with polythene whilst he's spraying. I also agree that if you can get him to use a dribble bar on a watering can it will cause less drift, or a shrouded sprayjet on a knapsack sprayer as SW suggests!

You would only need to cover stuff that was growing as once Roundup falls on the soil it becomes inert!