The Observer Yesterday.
Home-grown veg ruined by toxic fertiliser
Caroline Davies
Source: The Observer
Gardeners across Britain are reaping a bitter harvest of rotten potatoes, withered salads and deformed tomatoes after an industrial herbicide tainted their soil. Caroline Davies reports on how the food chain became contaminated and talks to the angry allotment owners whose plots have been destroyed......
The Press and Journal Today
Gardener mucks in but roots out problem
He believes herbicides are to blame as vegetable plants curl up
By Joe Watson
Published: 14/06/2008
WELL-ROTTED farmyard muck has for generations proved a product that gardeners annually hanker for to improve the fertility of their soils and boost yields.
The much sought after material can, however, have the opposite effect as award-winning gardener Bill Davidson has found out twice in the last three years.
His vegetables have shriveled up after being grown in muck that he believes has been tainted with a range of herbicides used to control grassland weeds and which remains in the waste – even after the grass has passed through cattle.
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