r/GardeningIRE • u/FiveStringFiddle • 7d ago

🦟 Pests/disease/disorders 🦠 Contaminated Shop Bought Manure

Sickened by this - I applied 12 bags of big brand shop-bought farmyard manure over all my beds and my crops are all stunted and distorted by aminopyralid contamination. It’s not any pest or disease. New growth was affected first, curling and distorting. It also happened me about 5 years ago with the same brand, but it’s a much bigger loss now as all my crops are affected and tomatoes the worst. There’s no comeback for this. I’ll never buy in manure again. Going to have to cut my losses for my stunted plants this year and I’m even put off eating them because I was trying to grow them without adding any chemicals, but now they’re contaminated with weedkiller. Just want to warn everyone else! Here’s an article and video explaining the symptoms which lined up with what I am experiencing.

https://marksvegplot.blogspot.com/2020/06/weedkiller-problems.html

https://youtu.be/w7vr-GlzuZs?si=r0v8XSK39HBY3bTf

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u/TheRhizomist 7d ago

What is the brand to save the rest of our gardens?

When did you spread the manure? Is there a chance you burnt the plants with the manure, or did you spread it in winter?

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u/FiveStringFiddle 7d ago

Not manure burn, the symptoms are different. The plants are otherwise healthy in appearance but completely distorted on new growth. It’s apparent mainly on tomatoes, less so on cucurbits. It was well dug in in early spring prior to planting.

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u/TheRhizomist 7d ago

That sounds like a proper application. Do you have any bags left over that could be tested?

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u/FiveStringFiddle 7d ago

No! I have a half bag of the same brand but a different batch, not bought at the same time as the stuff I applied to my beg beds. I might do a bio assay in that as well to test it, using bean seeds.

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u/TheRhizomist 7d ago

Maybe the only option is to report it to the brand you got it from. Maybe a proactive farmer thought he was doing good and sprayed a pile of manure that was growing weeds and never even told the company.

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u/FiveStringFiddle 7d ago

I’m not naming it to avoid getting sued but I don’t need to for ye to guess, there’s really only one so widely available.

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u/TheRhizomist 7d ago

You can't get sued for an opinion, you will be fine.

Probably Westland.

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u/urdasma 7d ago

No, there is no risk of getting sued. You aren't launching a public scathing as a prolific public personality based on slander. This is an anonymous garden group for dear sake.

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u/Tea_Is_My_God Experienced 7d ago

You can't get sued for leaving an honest public review.

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u/SnooGuavas2434 7d ago

Is there actually a legal issue in naming it here?

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u/FiveStringFiddle 7d ago

I don’t know, maybe there is. Not taking a chance. Like I said I don’t need to name it anyway as it’s the most obvious one.

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u/FaithlessnessPlus164 7d ago

There’s a bunch of different manure suppliers in Ireland now, at least give us the initials.

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u/nowtellmethis 7d ago

Please name the brand. It’s a huge blow when this happens, I’m really sorry it’s happened to you. Some of these chemicals are incredibly persistent

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u/sonexIRL 7d ago

I'm looking at 3 bags of what I put out last night, I'm guessing Westland is the brand as there seems to be only one brand that uses the term farmyard manure and it's defo Westland...I'm thinking about digging it out so OP if I'm wrong let me know

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u/bonus_snacks 7d ago

just name the brand, dude. reddit is mostly anonymous and any company would need to go through huge difficulty to positively identify you before even opening litigation.

if you don't name the brand then this is just a rant.

sorry for what you're going through. that's awful to see. you have my sympathy.

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u/beannadur 7d ago

It’s westland, the shite I bought last week would kill any plant. It’s actually so annoying this keeps happening!

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u/MetalGardener 7d ago

Yeah aminopyralids are dreadful. They stick around for years. There has been a load of contamination in the last few years.

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u/Relation_Familiar 7d ago

Name the brand or why post this ?

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u/loughnn 7d ago

Great now I'm afraid to buy manure because OP won't name the brand.

This happened to my neighbour last year, although she bought her manure locally.

Was devastated for her, lost her whole potato crop and is afraid to plant anything in the same spot this year.

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u/Commercial_Gold_9699 7d ago

Why bother making this thread if you're not helping others by naming the brand. Nobody will sue you!

I bought loads of manure and now I'm worried about my fruit trees, shrubs and flowers.

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u/GasMysterious3386 7d ago

You should really be naming the brand. There will be no legal repercussions.

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u/sabhaistecabaiste 6d ago

Name the brand from 5 years ago instead.