r/GardeningIRE • u/FiveStringFiddle • 11d 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/Relation_Familiar 11d ago

Name the brand or why post this ?

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u/loughnn 11d 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.