TOBY Buckland’s article ‘The Power to Poison’ (AG, 26 August) struck close to home for me. Sadly, it’s not only manure which can be contaminated with chemical residue.
I have always had excellent results growing plants in my own homemade compost mix until this year, when my tomato plants showed signs of herbicide residue. Planting broad bean seeds in a variety of planting media – my own topsoil, commercial topsoil, commercial peat free compost and my own compost mix – confirmed my suspicion that my compost was to blame.
Apparently my lawn treatment service had used a weedkiller containing clopyralid – it’s quite common in lawn weedkillers,
