I Can't Believe I've Made This Mistake AGAIN | Allotment Gardening For Beginners 

Excellent! I would like to make more compost to top my beds up and fill my potato buckets up with but it's difficult to ever make enough!

Haha, I needed music that was fitting! 😂

Thanks Mags. Definitely a bummer. You'd have thought some thought And consideration would be taken as whoever is supplying it knows we are growing food and must know about the herbicide, surely. There's even equestrian runner in some batches of it! I was thinking that too as some others have said the same thing about the roots coming out the bottoms of the containers. I may work around this by applying a mulch beneath the containers like wood chip

....I will not use horse manure next year 😂

You may be alright if its just a bit. I've put A LOT of manure on my plot to be fair. Best to double check though as it only takes a tiny tiny amount to affect your plants

Oh no! That's a long time to wait!

@@downtoearthwithjim depends how much area you covered with it, Corn and onions will grow OK in it (but would you want to eat them!) you can remidiate with plants known to take it up, sudan grass, wheat, barley and bin the plants, then test with peas before commiting a crop to it; expensive option is to dig it all out and bin it, one of the US channels got a mycologist in to help with remidiation, lots of straw seeded with oyster mushies then bin the mushies, not sure how well it worked, add more OM and keep it wet to speed up the chemical breakdown and dilute it seems to be the most common solution, I ended up selling the land after 4yrs so not completely sure it was completely gone. It did encourage me to become a composting expert and become totally self sufficient in compost tho.

I wish the ants I had were black. They're red ones on my plot, and the nests are everywhere too. Literally. In and under pots, in corners of beds.. they sting real bad. Seem to be getting worse every year! I've started using diatomaceous earth which is a time consuming way but organic

Thank you! I really do hope it's just one batch. As I said in the video, it's this bean bed and one raised bed in the polytunnel with the tomatoes in. I think I'll have a harder time clearing the polytunnel bed of the stuff. Time will tell, but it looks like I'll be limited to what I can grow in these affected beds for the next couple of years

I do hope there's nothing in the wood chip! I plan on composting all my wood chip paths to use and then re applying fresh paths next year

No problem, hoping people can learn from my mistakes instead of suffering the same problems we are!

Yes I believe so. If it's been sprayed on fields to kill broad leaved weeds

We get loads of it for free, but with the herbicide I'm put off it now. Will have to compost it well if I ever use it again

@@downtoearthwithjim its not a good thing with herbicide and as it in i guess one big pile you prob have to start over with a new pile if you started getting it without, but over time wont' it be washed out and start to compost because that may be a solution to use it later down the line. i might even try chicken poo next time because its far less weight that 60 l bag can get box pellets 2.5kg for a £10 im pretty sure that box will go a log way so it work out cheaper, for me it cutting the costs down so reason i move from liquid to horse what huge saving but if other option reducing costs why not i try that and for now most my things are very large pots chicken poo might just be more easy that having to make a mix, when i finally get an allotment im sure go to use the cheapest way, but i will sure make my own compost and that should be full of goodness so if it stays cheap chicken poo might also be a good option , trying to get back in the allotment my granddad worked for decades and its only around 100 meter from my house so it be easy to work and short walk most tools can stay at home but as bad health im looking at options to make it a tad more easy so prob do a lot more under cover and a good section for roots but unsure at the mo, but the tape seeds you can get that make life more easy as they already spaced out so just lay out the tape and cover after you loosened the soil up

Thanks.. yeah it is a real pain but I've learnt my lesson now

I think the only time I'll ever be using it moving forward is if it's composted. Perhaps mixed into my compost bays when I build them from pallets

No, but isn't that the same thing just composted and used horse manure?

Slugs hate it!

@@downtoearthwithjim yes cutting the copper netting / mesh and copper shaving going all over it sure has kept them away

Thanks Ali, is this herbicide aminopyralid banned in Canada or even the US? Absolutely gutted but trying to work around it, I'm optimistic. Have a fab week!

@@downtoearthwithjim not sure what is and isn’t used here but I know the gold courses use killer 😢😢 and I have noticed some of the soil I used on my tomatoes seems to be causing leaf curl 😱😱 so that normally means bad stuff in it 😡🤬🤬

No more horse manure! Chicken pellets from now onwards. One of the main reasons I started using it was the improve the soil quality on my plot as it was very heavy clay. But 5 years later, it's much looser

For the first few seasons at my allotment I had no issues but had heard about it. Never thought I'd have the same issue though. Just shows it is getting worse over time. There needs to be some sort of movement as it's an environmental problem for growers! Who knows what other issues it could cause..

It's very cold for the time of year! It's crazy, I hope it warms up! And the slugs I blame the wet weather we've had for seemingly forever now

I have problems with tomato blight a lot. Almost every year

Thank you! I appreciate it 😊 I'll be keeping posted!

I hope so, too. Thank you for your kind comment and happy gardening

I'm trying to stay positive 😊

@@downtoearthwithjim And me ....😟 🐌🐌🐌🐌

That's the only time I'll use it from now on.. if it's added to my composting system and composted properly. Even then I'll probably test it by planting a susceptible plant in it like a squash

I just muclched all my pumpkin and sunflower patches with 3 month old manure/straw thinking at lest it would protect the soil over summer 😢

No slug problem yet for me, the garden was flooded the entire winter so maybe it drowned them! Main problem is cold here in Derbyshire at present.

I usually apply it in the autumn, let it sit on top of the soil over winter then dig it in when spring arrives. I won't be doing that moving forward. May add some to my compost bin to compost properly but that's the only exception

Cheers , ill keep my fingers crossed . Good luck

The spuds in buckets will put their roots through the holes in the bottom of those tubs into the contaminated ground (some people bury them a couple of inches deep specifically for that). I read a while ago it only takes one part in a billion of that weedkiller to kill your plants. You can always grow Sweetcorn in the ex-bean bed, but it's probably worth checking if you can compost that, or if that in turn will also become contaminated.

It could well be a case of both of them to be honest. The cool weather isn't doing any favors for us

That's good news. Sadly a lot of farmers are using it and not bothered about dumping it for us allotmenters to deal with!