This weeks Horse and Hound has some worrying news (unless I am hopelessly behind the times and you know this already)
An increasingly popular hormonal herbicide used on cereal crops and grass to kill broad leaved weeds is very persistent and will pass straight though horses coming out in their dung unaffected if they have eaten hay which was sprayed (or if the straw they are stabled on was sprayed). The resultant manure, even when composted, can damage or kill vegetable crops - especially (but not limited to) tomatoes, beans, onions, lettuce, potatoes. The company which produce it specifically warn that vegetables damaged by exposure should not be eaten!
Never have I been gladder that my disorganisation this year has meant that I didn't go and get horse manure for the veg bed....
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Horse manure warning (serious)
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Donk · 21/07/2008 22:23
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