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Post by mollymckee on Dec 22, 2019 3:32:29 GMT
A bit of googling turned up that alfalfa is now GMO Round Up ready. A friend with an organic truck farm was feeding his small goat herd alfalfa in the winter. We are now searching for organic hay producers close enough to our area to be cost effective. Here's an article that has lists of product names and a list of vegetables that could be effected. s lee.ces.ncsu.edu/2016/03/herbicide-carryover-in-hay-manure-compost-and-grass-clippings/All Alfalfa is not round up ready. You can buy round up ready alfalfa, it is more than twice as much non round up ready. A lot depends on where you are planting it. There is very little round up ready planted around here. However dirt makes round up inert, so just till any straw into the ground or compost it with soil. |
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Post by grillbilly on Dec 22, 2019 10:06:23 GMT
A bit of googling turned up that alfalfa is now GMO Round Up ready. A friend with an organic truck farm was feeding his small goat herd alfalfa in the winter. We are now searching for organic hay producers close enough to our area to be cost effective. Here's an article that has lists of product names and a list of vegetables that could be effected. s lee.ces.ncsu.edu/2016/03/herbicide-carryover-in-hay-manure-compost-and-grass-clippings/All Alfalfa is not round up ready. You can buy round up ready alfalfa, it is more than twice as much non round up ready. A lot depends on where you are planting it. There is very little round up ready planted around here. However dirt makes round up inert, so just till any straw into the ground or compost it with soil. Soil and dirt are not the same, which one again provides the cure? |
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Post by alice on Jan 4, 2020 19:32:59 GMT
I tell you, it gives one pause! What if the rabbit manure from another neighbor has broad leaf weedkiller residue from the alfalfa in the rabbit pellets?
I'm just going with verifiable clean products, mostly from my own place.
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Post by oxankle2 on Feb 2, 2020 21:03:28 GMT
I spray roundup on plants on ground I want to till, wait a week, then till. Roundup, once in the soil, binds with clay and is no longer active. I have also used "compost" or mulch from the city that is composed of yard waste, tree and branch trimmings, and sometimes bits of lumber. Certainly that yard waste contains some herbicides or insecticides. After a yea in the ground the stuff is almost entirely undetectable and I have never noticed any plants stressed by it.
I may be a ticking time bomb, but so far so good.
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Post by ohiodreamer on Feb 20, 2020 19:17:51 GMT
Haven't read all the responses, but going back to the OP's question on what to add to wood chips to help with nitrogen.....used coffee grounds. Ask at coffee shops, fast food joints, churches, etc. They mold fast....so if someone is saving them for you be sure to get there ASAP so they don't have a mess.
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