WARNING! Herbicide Danger for Gardeners || Black Gumbo

[@davidthegood]

Excellent explanation, Scott. God bless you for sharing. I will share your video far and wide. It's a terrible feeling and this needs to end.

[@fatman6660]

Thank you guys for teaching and exposing this :)!

[@joniboulware1436]

It is just devastating. But unless the EPA bans it outright, this will never end.

[@bitchywoman]

@@joniboulware1436if gardeners are enough of a pain in the ass about this then someone will market a safe option hopefully. We should at least be able to get composts and hay labeled.

[@rdb7450]

I believe in areas like Japan & Russia where they have had serious contamination, the ppl planted crops of sunflowers, as they are known to draw out poisons in the soil.

[@jillclark9215]

I just saw this. I knew not to use straw or hay on my garden after roundup ready wheat straw killed my tomatoes one year but I never heard of grazon. I noticed my tomatoes leaves are curling especially new growth and I can't figure why. I used Black Kow manure this year in my garden and now I'm not sure if I want to eat any tomatoes or any of my vegies. I've planted 35 tomatoe plants, 50 pepper plants. I grow the majority of my food and this is really upsetting. I don't use chemicals. I'm an heirloom gardener and if my soil is ruined and my vegetables poisoned I don't know what I will do. I have not planted my fall garden yet so that's one blessing. I won't be putting any manure in it. I will have my soil tested and make sure that's what it is before I destroy my garden. If it is I guess the best thing is to burn everything and plant rye. Thanks for the information.

[@ScottHead]

A soil test usually will not indicate the presence of aminopyralids, at least any spoil test that I know of. Yes, planting a cover crop that is a grass or monocot like corn will help draw up the herbicide and store it in the foliage. That crop can be removed and discarded.

[@hudson8865]

Thank you.

[@melvinrexwinkle1510]

You could write a letter to your senators asking them to pass laws to stop herbicide use! That would eliminate many of our problems in the big cities!

[@ScottHead]

They don't care, they are in the pay of the chemical companies after all. This stuff is banned in many countries but not here, makes you wonder.

[@melvinrexwinkle1510]

@@ScottHead yep and many countries don't have as much to eat as we do and they are glad that we are able to grow a little for them

[@MaryGrahamFisher]

Thank you! Sorry this happened to you.

[@Tiger-fv3nl]

I use chemical fertilizers on most of my tomatoes, peppers and corn. I have beautiful tasty vegetables year after year and very healthy plants with little-to-no disease problems. My tomato plants sometimes get 8 ft tall and produce mostly blemish free healthy fruit. I sell them at Market and my customers never complain. It's all about what you prefer.

[@ScottHead]

It’s a sad day when folks can’t trust organic fertilizers. At least with the chemical approach you know what you are getting. 🥴

[@enchilada1956]

This grazon will end up in the beef supply as well. We are all trying to eat healthy meat that is antibiotic free and organic, but if the cows were fed hay that was tainted with grazon then that herbicide will end up in the beef the consumer eats...

[@mikehancho1613]

Yes that's terrifying

[@markm8188]

I really feel for you. As a fellow gardener, it resonates. I'm also angry because of the whole situation with chemical-agribusiness. Best wishes to you, and thanks for sharing.

[@teemadarif8243]

You are one of the few Gardeners on YT speaking up about that , thank you for informing the rest of us

[@recklesslove2880]

A lawsuit ..... Going straight to the source .. . . . Mass amount of complaints are needed .

[@classymom9047]

Great video and information.This doesn't affect me in the Caribbean our cows are grazed in fields that use no type of herbicide or pesticide.

[@ScottHead]

You are blessed!

[@annalovesJesus22]

This is so true. It is so sad that farmers know that a product will impact home gardeners negatively and yet they still sell it to you because they want the money. I thought I was experiencing leaf curl. First on my peppers, then on my squash, then on my tomatoes! I began to think something is wrong. Then I made the connect with Black Kow or Black Velvet. My beds that dont have it are just fine. The plants start out okay and then they begin to deform. I will also stop purchasing manure from big box stores and try to make enough compost to top off the beds. I would prefer seeded hay over Grazon hay any day!! But Ive switched over to pine bark for mulch

[@joeyharris67]

God bless you brother. I first found out about this from Danny on his deep south homestead channel. I'm a market gardener and I do not trust any compost anymore. All ot takes is one bad batch and a farm is destroyed. Best of luck to you.

[@ddsfarmacy692]

The fact that this product has several names means that the producers of this product were intentionally being deceptive. Thanks for sharing/exposing this helpful info!

[@aileenefields337]

Soo Sorry this Happened!!&Thank You for the information!!&Have a Blessed Weekend-

[@genevieve4227]

Thanks for your video. I'm in New Zealand where this stuff is marketed as Weed'N Feed, Torzon amongst others. Our commercial suppliers are supposed to test their stuff before they sell it, but they don't. I've lost plants this year and am trying to get the info out there.

[@soutpilaar]

Take a round medium sized dustbin with lid. Drill holes all around. Even a big square bottle with big lid will work. Plant them in your raised beds. Trow small pieces cardboard leaves and kitchen scrapes in bottom and a little compost on top. Water it. Put the lid on and let the earthworms do there red thing. They will move between the bed and bin/bottle. and turn the scraps to compost fast. Just keep adding scraps and paper or cardboard and little water. Your bed will stay healthy.

[@cindylopez4883]

We destroyed a brand new garden this year so discouraging. pLease , please continue to show us what works and what doesnt as you try to FIX the soil. Where are you? I am in Dallas. Another great reason to be angry with DOW.

[@MrDillon45]

I destroyed a garden with aminopyralid as well. We’ve been trying LABS from Korean natural farming and compost teas. Hoping the large herds of bacteria will eat through the soil and remediate it for us.

[@raymondfarlow6059]

I just watched David the Good's livestream 'Manure will kill your garden'. The horror story starts at the 10.30min mark about Grazon which i'll call the "herbicide from Hell" If you don't want to dig out all the contaminated soil ( the rain washed it so far down into the soil off the hay) then it's grass, corn, wheat or barley to grow in there for next few years. I like your new composting ways, go full on, compost everything. Cheers.

[@MrDillon45]

Did you get rid of the aminopyralid? I couldn’t find the final video in the series.

[@keithosborne6585]

I just spent a few hundred dollars putting together a small vegetable just to have fallen victim to this problem myself. I agree. Totally unethical practice.

[@JoyMcCormack-xh7ky]

Wish I had seen this earlier. I just did this very thing on all my raised beds. Now I’m starting over. Horrible!! All that time and work just gone.

[@mattpeacock5208]

Is there any update on this?

[@texastornado1195]

I suggest getting to know your local farmer, if he/she sees the need and profits of growing a pure organic crop, they would probably set aside some acerage specifically for organic gardening use. I am a farmer, it's definitely something I would consider if I knew I had a market for it that is competitive financially with growing for big corporations.

[@country4lyfe365]

I so wish I seen this in the spring. I just killed 34 th comatose plants 2, 25 ft rows of tri color lettuce, 5 hills of cucumbers, 5 hills of zucchini, 3 25ft rows of onions , and 2, 25ft rows of cabbage. I'm so upset I litterally cried 20 mins ago. My whole familly depends on this garden . And after all the shit going on ,this year was very important. Along with loseing my job 6 months ago, my mother dieing last year , barely hanging on to the house, I'm just done. Thee only thing I can do for my familly is my life insurance policy. This garden was kinda thee last straw. Idc what anyone has to say. Life has ah way of piling shit up on you n I really tried. Idk. Crazy crazy. God bless. Indiana

[@annadawson5179]

Hi Scott! Thanks for the information; I'm fighting it right now and it's been devastating. Since it's been a while, did the corn remediation work for you, or did you eventually have to replace the soil? I've lost about 150 gallons of finished compost, half that already spread on garden beds, and areas mulched with the uncomposted hay, and we're trying to figure out how to save the years of soil we've built up to this year :( Thanks!

[@ScottHead]

Yes, the corn worked well, I've been growing for several seasons now with no herbicide.

[@annadawson5179]

@@ScottHead Thank you!

[@penney304]

Thanks for getting this information out there. I'm a subscriber of your channel also David the good and Danny of old south homestead. All three of you have been preaching this same message. I know others are doing the same. It's criminal what Big Agr is doing to our food supply. Keep putting out the word. Better days ahead, I hope.

[@tinkernaut8736]

Yep, I quit using hay and straw in my garden. I use shredded leaves I get from yard crews for free.

[@anthonyhenry7631]

Hello I just saw this video. Thank you so much. I have had a suspension for a year or 2 about this problem. I was blessed to get all the free horse compost I wanted and believe you me I took advantage of it. I started about 7 - 8 years ago. Every year I would haul in a few tons of this stuff and would have some of the biggest and best veggies I have ever grown. Then about 4 years ago I saw a decline in my garden. I didn't know what it was . Needless to say the past 2 years have been terrible. In fact this year my cabbage and tomatoes are still the same size they were when I planted them and they have been in the grown 2 months. Most of the seeds I planted didn't even germinate. So now I know for sure what's going on. I did have success with 1/2 runner beans they are growing like crazy. The seeds I bought fir them had a pink coating on the outside. Don't know if that had anything to do with it. I planted a herb garden in another garden bed where I had use the compost . Nothing at all came up. I have killed my grown.

[@ScottHead]

Sorry to hear about this, it is getting more common every year, unfortunately.

[@Missysnaturals]

Sorry that happened, the only way to know your hay is to know your farmer. We dont use any herbicide for hay...good fields produce good hay/grass. PS try growing sun hemp to clean up the soil in your garden.

[@dollyperry3020]

My heart is breaking for you! I had an overspray issue from the wheat field next door and that was bad enough.

[@NeuralEngin33r]

Me too. My neighbor used 4D-2 on a hot day, it vaporized and damaged my tomatoes.

[@dollyperry3020]

@@NeuralEngin33r I've never heard of that....but it makes sense. Don't give up though. You'd be surprised at what our plants can overcome!

[@ezwayocho8296]

😩

[@daveschreiner413]

Is anything really organic anymore? This is so aggravating.

[@LYFJV]

Everything is contaminated. The soil the air the water the food the "medicine"... Everything...

[@robertl.fallin7062]

@@LYFJV can confirm tye medicine . ..

[@VickiTakacs.]

Monsanto with the gov'ts help are doing everything they can to decimate real food, trees, etc and that is a fact.

[@markie3394]

Vicki Takacs yes, very true! Did a college paper regarding Monsanto back in 2000. GMO was then and still is in the United States a huge money maker as is herbicides. During that time other countries band the use because of devastation to lab animals in the way of cancers and malformations describing Frankenstein results other diseases and death. I do my best not to buy foods with any kind of soybean as this was the main target as in Round up ready soybeans. Cross pollination of the beans and corn are also issues. Just learned about the herbicide because was considering hay bale gardening. Looking for inexpensive ways to help with physical limitations. Guess I’ll find another way to raise the beds but what to fill them with? Oh Jesus please come quick!

[@TheTinkerersWife]

I'm not sure anything can be considered truly organic with all the chemicals in the atmosphere anymore. We still must do what we can in spite of what we have no control over. Hopefulky our efforts will make things better for others if not for us.

[@emac1177]

Wish I had seen this 6 months ago. I was so excited to discover hay as a mulch since I was already using it for chicken bedding. Now I have a poisoned garden, a years worth of poisoned compost, and my future compost from the chicken bedding is poisioned. We also topped many containers with hay.. they are the worst hit. All my bell peppers, some hot peppers, and some tomatoes. The garden bed is doing ok...cucmbers and zukes are still thriving. Nothing else survived. It is so maddening and just a sad, unnecessary blow to gardeners trying to grow food and better the soil. Did the corn planting help that bed, or did you have to remove the dirt?

[@ScottHead]

Corn planting did indeed help.Check out the video: kzbin.info/www/bejne/i3qni2N-o7aSq6c

[@nicolabowden2756]

This is very worrying. I saw your first video showing the damage caused by using the poisoned hay then looked up David the good. His video about manure has really worried me.. gardeners have been using manure for ever as a natural source of nutrients for vegetable gardens and compost heaps. My family have just moved house and decided to use half of our old neglected garden to grow vegetables and fruits. Very much like yourself. I have a child and would love to see her picking and eating wholesome home grown food. My soil is pretty poor which i thought would really benefit from a rich natural homemade compost. We have been pulling up heaps of weeds and removed old leggy tired shrubs and cuttings from my weed ridden grass. We have pretty much copied your compost heaps at the side of your house and have crammed them with all this stuff including waste from my kitchen cardboard and paper etc. I decided to add some well rotted manure so purchased 3 large bags. I was just about to mix it into my young compost heaps when i saw your and David's videos. Although the bags of manure were purchased from a plant nursery which stocks mostly organic items im very nervous adding what should be a safe natural product into my compost heap which im going to spread over my entire garden. Even if stuff does manage to grow would you want to actually eat it ?.. its been 6 months of back breaking work to get my garden where it is now with a lot more work yet to do.. i dont want to ruin our efforts by possibly adding this awful chemical to my garden and future plants. Ive reused everything found in the garden. I dont want to waste anything and to add this manure and possibly wreck our new garden would be so upsetting. This subject has really worried me. Im so sorry this un necessary disaster has happened to you.. i hope by planting corn and grasses it will removed this toxic gunk from your lovely garden. Best wishes

[@ScottHead]

Nicola, isn’t it just sad? This chemical contamination possibility is so persistent that it changes the way gardening has been done for centuries. Really, we can’t trust outside resources anymore. Best case is buy a year ahead of time and plant a test plant or two in a container with the outsourced manure or hay, see if it is contaminated. Indicator plants like tomatoes that are highly sensitive to aminopyralids will show a reaction dramatically. The downside is you lose the money if it’s tainted and have to find a way to get rid of it. Upside is you protect the rest of your valuable garden. But who’s got time for all that? Makes me angry we even have to have this conversation. Best of luck.

[@nicolabowden2756]

@@ScottHead Thank you Scott and best of luck to you too.

[@kimmieRH05]

Thank you for the education!!! I am so sorry you are having to go through all this. I understand your anger and frustration at this situation. How many seasons will it take to amend your bed?? If you do grow corn, try growing the decorative corn being you can’t eat it. Some of the stuff I have read about about pesticides being used by big farming for grocery market veggies is 100% SCARY!! I read if growers stopped using pesticides today it would take over 60 years for that land to amend itself free from the chemicals. Not to mention that stuff leaches into ground water. I digress..... I will definitely be following your progress on this. 💕

[@ScottHead]

It may not take too long if I choose the right kind of plant. I will likely try the corn thing, and I'll put some volunteer tomatoes I have potted into the soil later in the year as tests. Decorative corn sounds great, but I doubt I have enough time to actually get a crop. We shall see.

[@country4lyfe365]

@@ScottHead Hey Scott how long did thee corn thing take ? Couple seasons?

[@Nik85578]

I dont understand if its no good for our plants its no good for meat and diary

[@annavitaperenna452]

It's worse than irresponsible and unethical. It's CRIMINAL.

[@unsaltedtomato899]

chemical agriculture encouraging more chemical agriculture... organic farming wiped out by "helpful" chemicals sprayed on fields and it's not affecting chemical farmers that don't use mulch or manure or any other natural fertilizer farming practice. They just use chemical fertilizer that runs off, along with a lot of tilled soil, into streams and rivers, now tainting sources of fresh water that become unsafe to drink. The planet is suffering under their practices but those trying to farm more ethically and sustainably are losing large portions, if not all of, their produce/product/food while Dow says, "be careful".

[@ScottHead]

Yeah, a small line of "caution" buried in some product PDF that no one ever looks at is considered "responsible business." No, it is deceptive.

[@roseannekinney6942]

Jessica Sowards at Roots and Refuge had to remediate soil following application of organic compost that had used manure from cattle fed on Grazon fields/hay.

[@Thankful1998]

I am just hearing of this, this year. A man bought cows to have his own manure and learned of the grazon. He was shoveling manure 3 days and pitching until it went thru their system.

[@michaelmiller5618]

I live in South Dakota where people actually intentionally give away herbicide tainted manure, hay and staw to destroy gardens. If people raise their own food it threatens farmers, ranchers and others. The USA has become one giant criminal organization filled with greedy folks from all over the world intending to do you and your family harm.

[@rebeuhsin6410]

I really do not think farmers are trying to stop home hardening. Big farms grow corn, beans and wheat. It's more like do not care.

[@suzanneburns6130]

Thank you for sharing this! It would be great if all growers and farmers used organic, natural means to controlling weeds, diseases and pests.

[@fatman6660]

Horticulture for the win :D

[@tonyrayjones1550]

Unbelievable I just found out about this from Deep South Homestead....wonder now if my compost has this in it.....

[@alharnage4016]

Yeah, I think some compost from a fair grounds. I believe it was tainted with that mess.

[@floraledet6973]

This happened to me this year I brought in loads of horse manure and low and behold I got hit!!!

[@dystopiagear6999]

Thankfully you already had the container garden going! This year I finally have all three: containers, raised beds and some stuff right in the ground. Diversity in your techniques as well as in the plants you grow can prevent one problem from wiping out ALL your efforts.

[@dlou3264]

Wow, what this is doing to milk, cheese, and other dairy products! ALSO other products using them in production.

[@ponolovefarms3926]

I lost an entire cannabis garden to this back in 2020 using straw from The Grange for mulch. Literally a 200k loss.

[@bluebird5949]

NOW I UNDERSTAND. I HAVE BEEN ORGANIC GARDENING ALL MY LIFE AND I HAVE NEVER SEEN CROP FAILURE LUKE I HAVE THE LAST TWO YEARS. I EVEN INCREASED THE AMOUNT OF “Natural Content” IN MY GARDENS. WELL SHOOT I GUESS I CAN FORGET ORGANIC ! Shame On Me !

[@izzzzzz6]

CAUTION communal composting also carries this danger, many people use weed killers. I have found this out the hard way on many occasions, for example our local dump provides free compost yet many people who contribute do actually use weedkillers in their gardens. Also i have always asked my Neighbors gardener to leave me his grass cuttings which i put around my raspberries however this killed most of the fruit last year and the rest did not taste good. I am now writing to them to tell them i am no longer interested, i also have a small communal compost in my garden but not i realise i will have to put up a sign politely asking people not to leave any organic waste if they use weedkillers.

[@erichbrewer6403]

It takes manure out of the equation in fertilizing a garden. You have to buy fertilizers which are in short supply.

[@Mixdplate]

I'm fairly new to gardening and have been trying to grow organically in a raised bed for the past 3 years. I've only attempted tomatoes, herbs, & carrots. I've purchased all organic soils, manures, & mulch. I have yet to get one good tomato or carrot after 3 years. Herbs are a hit or miss. This year I only have a few potted herbs as I deemed myself a failure at gardening. After coming across this post I'm wondering how much of it was actually my fault.

[@lindaanndeisch7737]

two years ago grazon destroyed my raised bed garden. Grew sunflowers and corn and amened soil with biochar. Planted 4 tommato plants, flowering so far so good.

[@zsquire1]

Try about 8 minutes into this video if I copied the link properly! kzbin.info/www/bejne/jnqYl6WGi5prqrs

[@anthonytriolo3643]

I had the same experience my tomatoes were curling up until i read the same thing from a gardener on you tube.The only thing i put on now is house scraps ,leaves and grass cutting (i do not use weed control on my grass) ,i bury branches in the ground in 3 years they rut.

[@terencechandler845]

Works well for the big industry doesn't it now you have to buy produce from them.

[@miltkarr5109]

Most organic way to garden now is to use chemical urea to grow your own cover crops. Use urea to breakdown wood chips for extra organic matter and nutrients. All compost is tainted to some degree.

[@johnboast631]

Thank you for sharing this, very important and scary information.

[@bookofthomas]

So sorry. I have suspicions of this being in some cow manure I bought for the tomatoes are not doing well. This lines right up though with the day we live in. I'm sure the big boys are at the horse gate to shut the road side stands down.

[@debraspringers2098]

Thank you for sharing this. It is pretty scary out there. Is anything organic anymore?

[@terrygothard104]

I recommend local turkey or chicken manure from farmers if available.

[@loveishope4406]

I use rabbit manure from a homesteader that feeds clean food for them.

[@freelivingtennessee]

Did growing cowpeas work out I’m dealing with herbacide carryover possibly in my soil or from a neighbor. I’m doing the bioassay for the soil right now

[@ScottHead]

Growing corn worked to pull up the herbicide.

[@shirleyfox3786]

Check out Sunflower to take it up just don't eat the seeds.

[@doityourselflivinggardenin7986]

This crap is also in bags of mulch sold at big box stores. Some of the bags are labeled with having weed killers in them, however, I bought a bag of regular mulch and apparently it got into my bag. It took years for me to grow anything in that spot. I removed the soil, but it still took years for things to grow. I now only buy mulch from a local wood mill.

[@winonamika4891]

I know the family where we buy our feed and I by mihai from them. They grow their own hey, so I know if they put that nasty stuff on it

[@rachelcarson7019]

It certainly seems like anyone or anything ethical anymore is as rare as a rotary telephone.

[@yeevita]

Corporations and people are only as ethical as other people hold them to. No ethics? No problem. Unless people make it a problem.

[@rachelcarson7019]

Yee Vita I’m not sure if you are being sarcastic here, but I sure hope you so. Coz if you’re serious, then you need to study up on the definition of ethics.

[@ezwayocho8296]

Thank you for your post. You made me smile in an otherwise very depressing thread. I actually have a rotary princess phone from the 1940's in great working condition. But I'm a rare individual so that explains it lol

[@ezwayocho8296]

When you think about it, most of these HARMFUL chemicals are created in laboratories by doctors and scientists who take an oath to "DO NO HARM"! Like it's in their code of ethics. So someone has obviously dropped the ball, or being paid off to look the other way. There will be a day of reckoning for them, of that we can be certain! 🙏

[@wandakelly2173]

Oh watching this is giving me flashbacks of my poor tomatoes and peas. I felt sick about it when I realized what was wrong. Thanks to you and David the Good. To remediate, I used biochar and planted lots of daikon radishes.

[@laraharding849]

Thank you for this video, we need to get the word out! I have a different garden heartbreak. I have cement and cinder blocks in my garden leaching heavy metals into my soil and veggies. And so many videos telling people to build cinderblock raised beds! Don't do it! They leach Arsenic, Mercury, Cadmium and a host of other heavy metals. Thanks for sharing. I needed to hear from someone going through a similar problem. I hope things are getting better for you. Dow also produce non-stick (e.g. tefal) persistent cancer causing products that build up in our bodies. Watch Dark Waters the film. Get the word out.

[@azimshamsi]

So sick thanks for sharing learned a lot It means you cannot trust commercial supplier for anything in your garden

[@cynthiapetrone562]

I just feel so bad for you. This is horrible! Who knows what is in the planting soils most of use to replenish our raised beds. Even though it says organic who knows. I admire your composure. I would be so enraged. Sending you Gardener's love.

[@kimmieRH05]

Cynthia Petrone Always buy your Organic soil from a reputable company. A true Organic soil will be labeled “Certified Organic” Unfortunately with air and water contamination these days it makes it really tough!!

[@kathrinekerns8398]

I had a similar experience with alfalfa hay 😥😥😥....

[@jolanda9947]

well just go and look at the resorts closed water gone the poison left that is what they dont talk about when drought comes the posison remains blowing in the wind

[@rebeccsnorton6189]

See Deep South Homestead also.They have just gone through this also.So sad we cant just grow our gardens without stuff like this happening.God Bless all.

[@ScottHead]

Yeah I saw his. Everyone these days is experiencing it. People will begin waking up to the threat before too long.

[@jeremiahbullfrog9288]

All part of the great reset. Stay strong, independent farmers!

[@MrKen-longrangegrdhogeliminato]

Its all about the dollar, by-passess common sence and safety.

[@ambreewilliams6585]

I just posted this video in my FB gardening group. We all can learn from this. Thank you for sharing! And I hope you can bounce back with some container tomatoes. I'm in the DFW area, and we still have lots of time left to grow tomatoes. :D

[@5hairballs]

Last year, my wife and I lost our whole garden due to herbicide drift. Took almost a year to get the test results back from the state....now the fight with the cropduster begins. Sorry you had to experience this. It's devastating after all the work we put into our gardens.

[@raincoast9010]

I ran into the same thing with "compost" from the local municipal dump, i guess it was mostly from herbicides from lawn clippings that ended up in the compost mix at the dump.

[@katehileman7972]

Thank you so much for this information. I was planning on buying manure in bags this year to add to my soil. I definitely won’t be doing that now. ! This is so wrong! So sorry for your loss and difficulty. And again, thanks for sharing!

[@growingtexas1772]

So sorry this happened. Grazon was the first thing I thought of when I watched your bad hay video. I use leaves/pine straw from my yard for mulch, but I have bought bagged composted manure. Won't be doing that anymore.

[@earlshine453]

Hi Scott. Consider paving the contaminated beds for some years and put raised beds on top. I have raised beds on top of our paved backyard. I fill them with dirt, kitchen and garden waste and cardboard because I ran out of compost. Mittleider gardening could be a more expensive alternative. I grow Bocking 14 Comfrey for chop and drop, and sunflowers for shredding the stalks into mulch at the end of their cycle. There is no need to put everything in the compost heap cycle, there are less labour intensive methods for fertilizing the soil. When I had a lawn, I interseeded it with clover. Had to collect these clover seeds in the wild, because our garden centre only sold clover killing pesticides. Best wishes, greetings from Holland.

[@ezwayocho8296]

Cardboard is actually great because the earthworms LOVE it and will reward you with soil rich from their worm castings!

[@charlotteaustrew4463]

We also have to be careful about eating meat that so-called grass-fed they're able to sell grass-fed meat after they've eat this stuff

[@scatterbolt2578]

From the fine folks that gave us Napalm.

[@jacquier5312]

I'm so sorry this happened. It's nice of you to share this info, I'm planting a vegetable garden for the first time and your videos have been very helpful. Thank you!

[@karen-hillshomestead]

Thanks for posting this. Please everyone - share, share, share! Get the word out!

[@rajatsrivastava1884]

I too see impact of Grazon on straw I used as mulch. Was simply unaware. Thanks for highlighting.

[@JubeeBijou]

May I ask where you got the straw?

[@linalaurin4469]

If you have any Scandinavian viewers Aminopyralidis produced in Denmark by Dow AgroSciences Danmark A/S and sold under the name Lancelot. In Sweden restrictions are quite hard and there is recomendations of time to pass from use to growing some crops up to 24 months. It is also illegal to sell manure och straw/hey treated with Lancelot outside your farm. Hopefully this will prevent most disasters for your Swedish fellow gardeners. Swedish Chemistry inspections recommendations to farmers says 14 month before you can grow different Solanums (potato, chili, tomato) , beets , carrots , onions and different Apiaceae. 24 month for peas, beans, cucumbers, squash, pumpkins and lettuce. I hope you manage to get your soil healthy again and that next season will be better! The information from Swedisgh goverment maybe helpfull in choosing what to grow next year.

[@ScottHead]

Thank you Lina, this is very helpful information. Thanks for taking time to share it.

[@josephrobison8886]

So whats new? Every avenue of our little lives are the exact same. We are lied to and manipulated on a daily basis. The sad part is most people don't care about anything around them and cant see more than one step in front of themselves. As long as the WiFI is fast and the cell phone is charged and ready, their lives are complete. So, nothing will ever change on a large scale. Thank you for this video; inspiring people to take charge of their own lives.

[@bigrich6750]

Another KZbinr, “Deep South Homestead” had his garden destroyed by Grazon. He used manure which had eaten Grazon tainted hay. This stuff is evil. I’m just a backyard gardener, but now I’m afraid to even buy a bag of manure or compost.

[@ScottHead]

Yeah I know Danny had it over there. Lots of folks have struggled with it. Its a dangerous problem.

[@horseblinderson4747]

I think I may have gotten a straw bale that had some on it and that really makes me mad

[@Opa773]

And what about the bees ? How does it affect them?

[@ScottHead]

Doesn’t harm them as far as I know

[@CBsGreenhouseandGarden]

So sorry to see you had tainted straw. Glad to see you was able to save a lot of your plants. Thanks for sharing this information with us. Keep up the awesome work and hope you have a great day.

[@magdalenaholt2967]

Thank you!!

[@bslturtle]

Hi.. Nice video. Thank you for sharing I have a question. I have a round bale of hay that is full of weeds. I didn't feed it to my cows, but I did give it to my chickens to pick through and spread. I noticed that it smells somewhat of, lets say, Simple Green. Do you know what the Grazon smells like? Thank you for the help.

[@ScottHead]

I do not know what herbicides smell like, so sorry. I do like the smell of Simple Green tho.

[@jeannereimonn560]

Have you contacted your state agricultural department? The EPA? They need to hear from us. The same thing has happened to me. So sorry.

[@ScottHead]

They don't care. They encourage the use of these herbicides.

[@NotMuchHere]

Ok, so would this be in city mulch? Would it kill trees ( fruit / back to eden ).

[@ScottHead]

No clue about city mulch, but city mulch (you mean like ground up wood chips from the municipality, I assume) might have any number of unknown contaminants in it. Usually safe to use. Grazon would kill trees in a high enough concentration but probably wouldn't notice it if it was present and your trees were well established.

[@NotMuchHere]

@@ScottHead Thanks. I have clay and cant get fruit, falls off before developing. I was hoping the back to eden chipping would help. (I will never own a chipper again.)

[@jamesbeard966]

I've been composting my horse manure. This explains when my garden has been so pathetic. Does anyone know if worm castings are okay of the worms have been fed tainted horse manure??

[@ScottHead]

I'd pass on the worm castings too. If a cow's digestive tract can't destroy the herbicide, the puny worm's won't either.

[@draftplus]

This is a major issue that is being ignored. My large raised beds havent produced in several years. I can't trust my compost or local compost and certainly not store bought compost. For the first 6 years I had amazing harvests of anything I planted. Now I have corn. That is all. And I still plant tomatoes and other broadleafs to test, and nothing produces anymore. I would have my raised beds refilled with clean soil but who can you trust for that? This is consequential to the food supply. No one is listening.

[@thealkymyst]

This is intentional destruction of small scale food availability.

[@shihtzusrule9115]

Right on, and would you want to eat the beef that was pastured on that grass or wintered on that hay? And you/we would never know if they were or weren't. Kind of like bovine spongiform encephalopathy.

[@ImASurvivorNThriver]

This is AWFUL! We've switched to using our own compost (We compost everything like David The Good). We use a mixture of dried fallen leaves and seaweed (We have a nearby unlimited source) to build / create our own growing medium and to use as a mulch in our garden. We've added some African Night Crawler composting worms to our compost bin outside, and it creates vermicompost QUICKLY which we then add to our garden. We use a half 55 gallon food grade barrel cut vertically and drill holes on the bottom for drainage. We place ALL our kitchen scraps in there along with the dried fallen leaves, and let the worms do the work. We also place some hardware cloth over the top and weigh it down with heavy rocks so that wildlife or our dog can't get to it. It WORKS! I hope this helps.