I posted a while ago in the MN gardening section about the tainted garden manure issue... dh posted on a gardening site about it, using his real name. Here's his post:
"We have the aminopyralid problem and definitely from XXXXXXXXX Farmyard Manure. We have two raised beds and had enough local manure to do one, and bought the XXXXXXXX for the other. Even though the local manure bed is doing really well, the XXXXXXXX bed had about half the plants die in the first week or two, and the survivors are small with cupped curled leaves. Even weeds aren't growing well in the XXXXXXXX's bed. I've done nothing different between the two beds beside the local/XXXXXXXX manure and there are different crops, but the health difference is staggering. I've not read any other reports of bagged manure being a problem so I hope this highlights the problem. We've contacted XXXXXXXX who were unaware of the problem but asked to have the manure bag sent to them (which we still have). This is a big problem not only for those of us with affected crops but surely there's a health risk from the animals that have produced the manure?"
Well, I've just had someone here from company XXXXXXXX asking for permission to get a soil sample, which I happily let him do - thinking that they are trying to get to the bottom of the contamination issue. As he was getting the sample he mentioned that they're doing this because dh had posted comments online that they think are libellous
He went off with the soil sample. Dh says I shouldn't have let him take it seeing he just threatened us. I thought it would better to show goodwill (am always showing good-bloody-will and yes it doesn't always work out)
Dh has emailed the site he posted on and asked for his posting to be removed, but I'm bloody stressed out now about the whole thing. What will happen???? I feel really sick about it all.