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I have just watered my toms with feed
but the feed was ferdon by mistake
is all lost
Anthony
but the feed was ferdon by mistake
is all lost
Anthony
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What is ferdon out of interest? -
????????????????????All gardeners know better than other gardeners." -- Chinese Proverb.Comment
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Do you mean Verdone - weedkiller?
All the best - Glutton 4 Punishment
Freelance shrub butcher and weed removal operative.Comment
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oh bugger..........S*d the housework I have a lottie to dig
a batch of jam is always an act of creation ..Christine Ferber
You can't beat a bit of garden pornComment
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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".
There's no point reading history if you don't use the lessons it teaches.
Head-hunted member of the Nutter's Club - can I get my cranium back please ?Comment
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Ouch! Personally, if it is Verdone you've used, I'd consign the lot to the general waste bin. Sympathies.
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idot me
yes thats the stuff lawn weed killer what a............... i amOriginally posted by Glutton4... View Post
thank you all
AnthonyComment
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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!!)Gardening forever, housework whenever!Comment
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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.Comment
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I hope AP has given you a bit of hope Anthony, good luck.Granny on the Game in SheffieldComment
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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.
Some of us live in the past, always talking about back then. Some of us live in the future, always planning what we are going to do. And, then there are those, who neither look behind or ahead, but just enjoy the moment of right now.
Which one are you and is it how you want to be?Comment
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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.Comment
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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.Comment
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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!
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