NO Manure in the Garden???? Why We DON'T Use Cow, Goat or Horse Manure 

Growing up in a small town in Brazil decades ago with very little resources, we were extremely poor, my mom used cow's manure in her vegetable garden. We would go into the fields and pick up dried up manure, put in a pile in our backyard and burn it for 2 to three days to kill most of bacterias. Then she would work on the soil and spread the "baked" manure on it before planting the shoots and seeds. She never used any chemical product. We had all kinds of greens, garlic, onions, okra, yuka, tomatoes, and even coffee trees, a vine, fig tree. Everything she planted grew, flourished and gave fruits. And everything just tasted incredibly delicious. She also gave a lot away to our neighbors as they were as poor as our family. I remember how beggers would come to our house asking for anything to eat. She always kept a clean plastic container from margerine only for them. Everything we ate, they also ate. I look back and think of the things she did. My mother was and still is so firm and unwavering about certain things, good things. I know that her faith in the LORD and the love she has for her children has kept her as a straight arrow, no nonsense wife and mother. I struggle to understand how our children nowadays can be so disrespectful and many times so entitled. It doesn't matter how much you love them and try so hard to give them all that they need.

Its not just plants that chemical companies are killing . FDA needs to be disassembled and given back to the people to regulate. Government officials have proven themselves unworthy.

It's crazy that farmers don't want a weed in their hay but will spray a cancer causing chemical on their hay!

He's a real farmer that knows what he is talking about. Not many of those ole boys left. Thanks for the heads up.

This needs to be shared with hay farmers all across the globe!

I mulched three tons of bought in compost into my garden. I potted my seedlings into some. It caused massive damage in my garden because it contained broadleaf herbicide. This is a huge problem. Thank you for bringing it up and publicing this serious issue.

Morning Danny, I know I can trust my hay guy because I have been putting my own hay up for almost 20 years, no chemicals used.

I've known about aminopyralids for over a decade now. When I first found out about it, I freaked out as a gardener. No hay has come into my garden since and I've even leery of store bought bags of manure. Good luck finding a disclosure for any chemicals used on hay that come from anywhere other than a small mom and pop feed store. Hell, the county I'm in has been spraying herbicide on highway right of ways all over the place. There's a war against life being waged for the sake of vanity and profit.

OMGosh, we can't escape the corporate poisons! Seed oils. corn syrups, graze-on, nitrates, mico plastics in our food, etc... I've been spending more on grass fed beef to find this out. Now I have to research graze-on. Thank you for posting this.

I love watching programs like this. Real people, hard working, knowledgeable and willing to share their knowledge and wisdom that comes from experience.

This was a very important message. I had the exact thing happen, except I made the mistake of using rotting hay as mulch. The second season, after it had been tilled into the soil, it became impossible to grow healthy plants there. I'd never seen anything like it in all my decades as a gardener. What's truly bewildering is that we've become so short-sighted as to use such chemicals that must end up in our food. It's the definition of insanity.

These companies need to be held accountable. No one with power is held accountable any longer.

I ran into that with composted horse manure about 12 years ago. The county agent told me to add lime to the soil and keep turning it over, and the sun's UV light plus the lime would break it down. I did that and it worked within a few months.

Thank you for this information . You made it all so easy to understand . We all need to understand how they have basically ruined our American grown food . 😮

You have the best soundtrack music ever! By that I mean, no music. No fancy camera work. Just the sound of nature, hard work, and garden wisdom. Cheers!

This is why I want to grow and raise everything I eat

As a NJ resident, as soon as this farmer said Dupont, I knew where this was going. My advice to this guy would be not to plant food crops in that area or anywhere near that area. And get your well water checked, too. "Dupont, the unwanted gift that keeps on giving. Good luck.

I never would have thought about not using manure. Never heard about Grazon before. It is sickening to me to how 'farmers' who should have a deep interest in caring for the earth, are nothing but dangerous chemical spreaders! There are reasons farming was at one time called husbandry, and now it is agribusiness.

Have around 120 goats. Mixed in their manure last fall. My tomatoes grew up nice and then wilted. Plants are fruiting, but still wilted. Thankfully it is the only garden I used it in. Well thanks for this info and I'll need to look into the responsibility of the person selling the hay to make the buyer aware. We birth in dead winter and buy a lot of hay.

I put some black cow (just two handfuls in each five gallon container) in my potted chilies soil and they almost died. I re-potted them with some old soil I had used a couple years before and now they are flourishing. You really have to be vigilant nowadays. Thank you for the video , I am now a subscriber.

I got my hay last year from a farmer who had no idea what grazon is.👍😀.. I stocked up. My 2 year old manure is also clean. My seeds germinated well...but... The farmer a mile down the road has an attitude at me because I told him not to use it and He is composting and selling manure from his 20 head of horses. I have 2 reasons to not use it. Not only does it kill your garden,but my older gelding, has an eye disease and chemicals cause eye flare ups.. chemicals are bad for everyone.. I dont know why farmers think it is ok. Thanks Danny.

You can test mulch, straw, or manure for Grazon before using it. Fill a bucket a quarter full with the straw/mulch/manure. Pack it down so you have a decent size sample. Fill the bucket with water. Let this soak a week then water some sacrificial dycot veggies in containers you can toss later. If the veggies don't show damage within two weeks the mulch is safe.

We were warned about pesticide-tainted manure in 2014 at Mother Earth News conference. So glad we heard about it! Thank you for spreading the word. I'm sorry your beautiful gardens were so damaged.

Thank you, I had often thought about putting hay and straw on our land. Now I will continue what we are doing. I do not use any chemicals or pesticides. We also grow our own federalizer using weeds, leaves or anything grown on our land with out any chemicals. Thanks a million. Sorry for your land defunction. Hope you all will be OK> Thanks and stay safe.

😢Thank you for sharing your experience. What a terrible thing. On a lighter note; The sound of the beans falling into the pail! Brought back memories of my Grandpoppa in his iconic blue jean overalls!

There seems to be an endless amount of challenges when it comes to gardening. Appreciate your information. 👍

Glad we bale our own hay and do not spray our fields at all 😊 goat poop is amazing ❤ our dairy goats absolutely do not get anything sprayed cuz I don't want it in the milk that my husband and I and my 10 month old drink. Our dairy cow also doesn't get any ❤❤❤

Our food supply has gotten so tainted!!!! That is amazing that you figured that out!!!!

Thank you for this video. I've gardened a lifetime in N.Y. and have never seen problems like I have over the past 10 or so years. From bugs, beetles and caterpillers never seen before. To a garden robbing neighbor who also put antifreeze soaked cantaloupe on paper plates in my garden, I quit. Another gardener in my area is stll battling the bugs but has also used landscape co. bought manure and hay for mulch and is seeing a big, slow decline in his garden. LIke you said, it's been four years cleaning up your garden. But it looks to me like sabatoge has been going on for at least the last ten years in different forms, like the bug situation I mentioned.

This is why I get my manure from a friend, who's a friend of an Amish family. They do a lot of their own growing of hay on their property and everything is organic. Their horses are their vehicles so they are sure to take good care of them as to what they eat. I'm in the north where the Amish are in every town or village up here. Slugs are my problem in my garden here in Ohio. At night they always attack my green beans, your's look beautiful. I gotta hand pick them off and hit them with salt that's in a can. As like I don't have enough to do, I gotta be on slug patrol.. Great video my friend 🙏

My wife and I learned the hard way: never bring materials in from off the farm. Around here (central British Columbia, Canada) several similar products are used on haylands. Grazon is a very popular control for a variety of weeds; it's 20% picloram and 80% 2-4-D. Tordon is 100% picloram, used for the worst weeds such as Canada thistle. There are others, like Milestone, that are a bit less of a worry. But yes, bringing in hay or manure you don't know is very risky. In my experience you're looking at a minimum of five years before your farm or garden recovers. By the way, if you plant a few beans in a pot of soil mixed with questionable hay or manure you'll see whether it's contaminated. Legumes are extremely sensitive to picloram. The seedlings will grow twisted and gnarly, then die. Be cautious, folks!

That's great info on the Grazon. Makes perfect sense. I never cared for snapbeans, because most people grew the Blue Lake or something similar. Very bland tasting to me. But those yellow wax beans and some of the short flat varieties are great. ➡️➡️ Try this for your deer problem. Worked for me for over 20 years. I use to tend a couple of acres in fruit and veggies and the deer were driving me crazy. Grew several varieties of sweet potatoes, cowpeas and butter beans. Basically deer candy. I tried every recommendation for keeping them out,short of a thirty foot tall deer fence which I couldn't afford,and nothing worked to my satisfaction. An old neighbor farmer gave me this tip and it worked great for me. String high test fishing line (50lb will work, but a higher strength is better) around your garden. I used the metal posts you can drive in the ground. Put em roughly 50ft apart, strung three strands, starting about two feet from the ground, same distance more or less apart, tight. It doesn't keep them out by force, it confuses them cause they can't see it very well. I'd fix the strands at the ends of the field so it was easy to unhook so I could equipment in and out. At least try it on a small area and see how it works for you.

Good Morning Danny. I use guinea pig poop & chicken coop cleanout. We just moved to this property beginning of this year. we have very large garden plots this year. The past owners did not use chemicals and their animals ate off their land. Very lucky to have 8 acres of timothy hay growing organically for 15 years here. Many people I know were devastated by grazon in compost. Me, I have saved my guinea pig poop, dried it (all year). My chicken coop cleanout goes to my worms for them to finish it and turn it into black gold. We have 20 large bins (and growing) of red wigglers, and they a great job breaking it down for us. I use hemp litter for the chicken coop. We have a mealworm farm of 40 bins of mealworms in different sizes and stages. Their frass gets saved in a bucket and when we know that no eggs fell in it, it goes out to the gardens. I have saved Banana skins all year, dried them and turned them into powder, same with chicken egg shells. I also use organic alfalfa pellets (I buy that for my guinea pigs) for nitrogen and sprinkle that around the green leafy plants. They also eat unlimited amounts of organic timothy hay. I give them organic carrots, peppers, cabbage, green beans, broccoli, parsley, watermelon, canteloups (spoiled guinea pigs). All chicken bones and fish bones after making broth, are dried in the oven and then powdered for the gardens. For my tomatoes and pepper plants, I always dig a hole, toss in a sardine with skin and bones, spinkle a little lime, and cover it with our vermi compost then plant the tomatoe plant and the same for the peppers. This is what I have been doing for a few years, but now I have to bump it up to larger quantities and next year will be even more. We have 400 tomato plants and different varites. I use certain flowers to keep the bugs under control and tulle to cover crops that get attacked by squash bugs, or beetles, or by other bugs. Praying mantis helps, so do ladybugs, lots of sticky duct tape around my fingers to tap them off. At night I have a blacklight ready to pick off those evil hornworms,, which will go to my chickens in the morning. It is work, but we need what we grow for us for the year and for our animals. I won't buy commercial compost or garden soils. I have fall leaves in lawn and leaf paper bags and they will be added to the chipper and given to the worms to finish them off too. We will be getting mini jersey pregnant cows, 2 of them, next month. We have 3 fenced paddocks for them. Each have 2 acres of grass, clover and oats growing on it. They will be rotational grazing. Winter they will have the timothy hay we are growing. They will be grass fed. We don't get freezing temps here, maybe a freak freeze, but it's inbetween high 30's to 40's for the winter here at its coldest. There may be something for them to graze and we may not have to feed them just timothy hay. We will see.

I made a big compost out of weeds from my field. Any hay I get, I'll use the field hay( local). You can see the weeds and stray alfalfa in it. Never sprayed. I had trouble with commercial composted manures a few times, and was warned about the shipped in hay for gardening years ago. It's a chore to make compost, but well worth it.

Thanks for bringing this to our attention. I’ve been against using hay in my chicken coops (usually it’s because of the price, and because it’s slippery when I walk in). We prefer to use leaves and grass cut on my property - and sometimes pine shavings. Which the local chicken keepers always yell at me for - because they feel hay is better. I’m so glad I didn’t use straw, Lucerne or hay - becuase I use my chicken coop soil over my trees and garden at the end of season.

I use the manure from my horse’s stable but test it in several places before I do. I plant bean seeds in it and if they come up looking normal, it’s good to go for that year. But the test part is vital for me!

It seems as tho someone is trying to make us FAIL as we try so hard to gain a sustainable way of life. Wanda, your canned beans look beautiful ❤ 👵🏻👩‍🌾❣️

Best bet is to only use what you produce. Even Black Kow has been shown to have Grazon

I've been using Black Cow from Home Depot for several years in my backyard organic garden. I never knew it was a bad thing!

The same thing happened to me. My garden was doing great! I went and got some hey for my strawberries, and it ruined everything! We should be able to sue the grap out of these companies. I ended up removing loads of dirt from where I put it and transplanted my berries. Myself, I think its time to outlaw pesticides and herbicides. Also know that ANY Plants you plant in those areas and when they're finished, DO NOT toss them into your compost! You will only put it right back in your dirt as it will break right back down into your soil. These products are soil killers for growing foods. Also do NOT leave them to naturally break down on the soil beds or the Grazon will just go right back into your soil.

We have to wonder what the Grazon is doing to us that the beef we eat have grazed / ate hay from a field that has been sprayed with this product ?????

It is amazing how you will always learn from the honest people that are actually out there doing real farming and gardening. Thanks for showing the bad things that can happen and investigating the cause. And when we use chemicals, be it insecticides or herbicides, they are great as intended but you must follow the label instructions, "it's the law". More is not better. Anybody selling hay or cow manure should be honest about if has herbicide residue. We grow fruits and vegetables on our farm and I never use manure or compost from a source I don't trust. And if you buy hay for your animals, don't get from somebody that cuts it off land they don't own. Most scrimp on lime and fertilizer, if they use any at all, and the nutritional value of the hay grown that way is usually quite poor. Properly limed and fertilized hay fields give the grass the vigor to out-compete the weeds and won't require herbicide treatments. Weeds will take over a field if the pH is off and the NPK is low, then requiring herbicides to kill the weeds.

Just an idea... Try whatever you want to use in your garden in a pot before you put it in your ground. (Each bag and label the pots)

It’s not only the sprays… a lot of farmers fertilize with bio solids rich with contaminants.

I love the background noise. Crows and other birds chirping. So delightful.

This has been a problem for years. In Canada they use round up. We got hay for our chickens and to use in the garden, and composted after the chickens used it... killed almost our entire property within 2 years. Every garden bed that got even a shovel full of compost would dry plants out like they had never been watered. Everything started dying, when we got our soil tested they said it would take twenty years before the amount in our soil was gone. We sold the property for a third the price we bought it for. Couldn't turn it into the organic homestead we wanted it to be since we couldn't grow anything.

ten years... that's the half life of antifreeze... geesh. Thanks for the video!!! I bought Cherokee wax beans from Dollar Tree last year. OMG, the production was amazing!!! They just kept producing all year and huge beans, 8" even! I will continue to plant them every year!

Unbelievable! I just laid Black Cow out over my garden yesterday and was going to till it in tomorrow. I'll be bagging every bit of it up tomorrow and getting ridd of it. My garden last year was in a different spot and everything we planted failed. I thought it was location and air flow issues. So.glad I watched this before mixing that in. Your info has probably saved my patch this year!

Farmers are our heroes!!! God Bless you all, and thank you for all you do!!

Thank you very much for this information. I grow my own hay and my animals make compost. It never would have occurred to me that buying in hay could kill my farm.

It took 6 seasons of crop rotation (plant, harvest & dispose of off site) to fix 10 acres. The other 30 (basic hay) has bare spots, took 9+.

We lost several years of vegetable growing on several acres. Still have a pile of horse manure that's 10 yrs old and just recently see broadleaf growing on the pile. Learned the hard way. We cut our own hay and use our manure because we know no grazon is in our hay and manure.

mushrooms could potential be used to breakdown the persistent herbicides , as they have the ability to change there adaptive enzymes in order to eat new food sources , and commercially they are often grown on straw which is likely to contain the persistent herbicide ... mixing wood chips into soil then introduce mushroom spore then mulching surface with wood chip

This crazy how chemicals companies have flooded our food supplies with ☣️. As a kid my dad was a hog buyer for Hormel in a rural area. He use ground corncobs for bedding. After composting it about a year. We put it in my tomato garden and we got bushels of tomatoes. But now it seems like you say you have to know where even feed, hay, bedding comes from. Thank you. Peace to you.

Thanks for sharing about that manure! Soon as I get my property I am going to get same bib overalls and I am super excited for that!

Thanks! I've heard about Grazeon from David the Good, however, I did not hear that Black Cow might be tainted. I have used BC often in my backyard garden. A few years ago I recycled some hay bales used for a halloween display in one section of my garden and had a couple of bad yields in that section. I have used Black Cow over the years. It really makes it tough for a relatively inexperienced gardener (like me) to figure out what I'm doing right and wrong when major chemical companies throw in a monkey wrench. I agree with you that the conspiracy could be real. They're doing everything they can to make everyone dependent on the government!!!

I had the same devastating experience about 3-4 years ago with hay mulch on our tomatoes. The next year I got excited about mulching with wood chips and got free chips from the city that I spread in all my beds. The chips were infected with planarians that ate my earthworms and invisible mites that would attack us. All of this seems to have healed now, my garden is green so far and the earthworms are back, but it almost crushed my will to garden forever.

God's Light and blessings to you, your family, and to all of the other honest gardeners and farmers who just want the right to feed their families with nutritious foods without toxic chemical compounds. ♥️🏋️💜

I just could not believe that they spray this stuff on hay. The point of hay is to have varieties of weeds. Thank you for sharing 😊

After about 5 years old it stopped affecting everything in my garden except green beans, they never quit being sick from it.

There was an aminopyralid problem in Whatcom County, Washington in 2010. It came from a dairy farmer who was selling his composted cow manure. The hay came from the Yakima area across the Cascades. Big problem and some of the other market gardeners I knew lost thousands of dollars in lost production. The Washington state ag agencies didn't care about the problem and even said those certified organic farmers could continue to sell their produce as "organic" because they had done all the paperwork. The local food co-op in Bellingham continued to sell produce from the farms affected because: they had done all their paperwork for their organic certification. Neither the ag service nor the co-op addressed the poison milk that came from the cows.

Ha! I always listen to you in the morning while I’m standing in the bathroom putting on my makeup and getting ready for my workday. I’ve stated keeping a garden journal IN MY bathroom drawer so I can quickly jot down the nuggets of gold you randomly throw at me. I love to learn, especially about gardening. Beans/Peas ❤️ phosphorus Beans/Peas 🙅‍♀️ nitrogen Cherokee Yellow Wax Beans ✅ 8 24 24 🌱👍🏻

I'm so glad I found your channel. I'm a fellow Mississippian, living in Vicksburg. I have some strawberry plants in containers. I had bought hay to mulch around the plants. I guess I won't be doing that now. Thank you for sharing your knowledge on gardening. My family always had vegetable gardens when I was growing up. I helped with weeding, harvesting, and preserving the crops. My father is no longer here for me to ask about soil preparation, insect control, and fertilizers. It's wonderful to watch a fellow Mississippian.

Thanks for the warning I used to swear by cow manure by Black Cow. I had some old stuff and it didn't help my tomato plants. It's going to be hard to grow stuff with all this craziness in the farming industry. 73

I am from Venezuela and I am Agronomy Engeneer agronomist but you do remember me to my father, he was a good farmer! My respects and congratulations for your so good channel! God bless you!

I went to a local hardware/feed store and was able to get Cyprus mulch. It's amazing! Virtually no weeds, no issues with plant die off plus it smells wonderful. I've been leary about straw/hay bc of other ppls experience. Did not buy any cow manure for the same reason. Do I have pest issues? Yes. But I live in the woods in the South. Danny and Miss Wanda, I am ever grateful to you and channels like yours that have shared the knowledge that I'm being led that I need. Thank you and many blessings. 🙏❤️🇱🇷

Thank you so much, Danny! I had gotten fertilizer from the stockyard for the big garden one year. The first year everything was fine except I had to pull thousands of what they called coffee weeds. Then I left the ground fallow a few years. Last year I planted again and nothing grew, not even corn! I had the soil analyzed at MS State. PH is good and both nitrogen and phosphorus are very high. Potassium is low! I'm adding banana peels around my tomatoes and the newspapers I cleaned fish on. The cats finally realized fish heads taste good. I also sprinkled ashes from the wood stove in the middles. I'll rake up our own grass clippings for more mulch. They say moringa will also clean the soil so I'm planting some sprouts today. Might as well plant the leftover corn from last year, too. Sorry you had to learn the hard way, but thanks so much for passing your wealth of knowledge on. Love you guys! Charlie's U-Pick will open for picking soon and Wayne Lee's has whole chickens on sale for 99 cents a pound! I'm canning chicken today!

I’m super lucky to have a friend who raises organic beef. All grass-fed with his own grass and pastureland up in the mountains, in Montana. I buy a half-cow each year and get great manure for free. It’s hard to grow vegetables up here, but at least I have that in my favor.

It got my stuff grown in pots. My neighbors brought me a big pile and I finally figured it out.

Thank you so much for this. I think I experienced this, I was getting horse manure from a local stable, plants are dwarfed, then I got clued into what they're all spraying. Yes there is a force that is leading to the poisoning of life on Earth.

THANK YOU for covering this, with no varnish! If everybody's using it on their hay, how are we gardeners & liveatock keepers supposed to get any hay?? I wish Dupont or whoever had that nasty product put where the sun don't shine 😡 The upset, Tom, racking your brain, literal mental anguish, money wasted, those of us trying to grow food may not have money, people are buying vegetable seeds on their food stamps and stuff - I can't just I can't. I say don't even get me started 😢

This happened to my garden a few years back when someone gave be a load of horse manure. Yes, it’s heartbreaking. Your bean patch is so beautiful!

Had the same experience with organic BC a few years ago. Well, the soil healed after many years but last year we bought several bags of D.P. and the potted plants and garden beds struggled. This is the truth, I poured cooled down water from blanching okra in the pots and within a day or two the plants started looking better and growing. Work so hard tending to the garden and believing you are doing the right thing only to find out that the cows ate weed killer.

I always plant sunflowers the year before i plant anything else it breaks up the soil and makes it amazing to work in. I just use the ground soil no adding but well water 🤷‍♀️ i dont mulch or pile anything on my garden. Been video it since the day i bought the land slowly building up my landscaping

I’ve been preaching this for 30 years. I first realized something was wrong when my free range chickens started to have eggs with shells like rubber. My chickens had been laying beautiful eggs for years. The only feed they got in the summer was some corn at night to get them back in the coop. It took me 2 years to put 2 & 2 together. When I stopped feeding them the corn their eggs became normal again. I knew hay was a problem when a couple of big round bales sat in a field for 3 years without a single weed growing in them. I’ve actually decided not to have animals anymore because I can’t trust the feed source. Btw, milorganite isn’t something that you want to use either. It’s the leftover product from Milwaukee Wisconsin’s waste treatment plants. Oh they paint a pretty picture about how it’s treated to kill pathogens but with all of the medications that people take now there are some substances that can’t be gotten rid of no matter what. Think about it…. Estrogen is being found in the flesh of fish in the Great Lakes. Women take birth control pills…. Pee… it goes into the sewer system and through the waste treatment facility and supposedly after they “process” it they release it into the rivers that run into the lakes. It’s a sad, sad time for our planet.

A great way to keep deer out of your garden is to run 2-3 clear monofilament fishing lines around it. Doesn't need to be higher than 3 feet. The deer can't see it and they bump into it and it confuses them. They won't jump it because they don't know what it is or how high it is. It's cheap and doesn't require electricity. Might give it a try. Just remember that it is there so YOU don't trip on it too.

Thank you Mr Danny and Wanda for bringing this to the attention of the community. We appreciate all the knowledge you share. Yes, just like w the chicken feed, bio engineered items they are adding to food (the good thing is, they are adding Bio engineered food on the label- ALLEGEDLY) and other horrid things that are going on with the controllers. one thing that Jess had recommended, is planting a bean in each bag of black Kow and if the seed survives the first 10 days or so and doesnt die, then you can be pretty sure it doesnt have grazon in it. The good thing about testing with beans, is they shoot and quick and die quick if there are chemicals in the manure. Your garden is stunning. So happy you are sharing this knowledge with this community. Many Blessings.

This happened to me with my potted tomatoes in 2020. My tomatoes would get to a certain size and then the leaves would curl and then the plants would wilt. I couldn't figure it out. I know how to grow tomatoes lol. After researching, I learned about grazon from a Texas farmer here on RU-vid. He had the same issues. I now get chicken manure from a local friend. My plants have done very well since switching. I recommend speaking with locals.

I never thought about the hay used to feed the cows that make the grass fed meat. Eye opener. Thank you.

I can’t even believe I didn’t think of this. Waiting to hear back from my feed store regarding my hay. Thank you for bringing this up.

So sorry for your experiences. I have tried to warn people about Grazon for 5 years -- no one believed me. I'm glad that there is a bit of discussion over Grazon now. Your bean plants look beautiful. We have had such cold weather that we have no 'warm season' veggies in the ground yet (we are zone 6b/7a). This week we will begin transplanting seedlings and will begin sowing our beans. Potatoes are doing great, as are other cool crops. Strawberries are only starting to flower now. Crazy weather!

Danny, thank you so much for this video. I built a raised bed last year and everything died. I thought it was because it was a hot dry year and because I drive semi for a living I thought that it was my fault because I didn't water enough. After I saw this I made some phone calls and yes the hay I was feeding my horses with had been sprayed with Grayson. I'm glad I found out know instead of later when I will be depending on my gardens for food. The big kicker is that he did spraying on my farm for me and he used Grayson and probably sprayed MY GARDEN with it! I have about 5 years before I retire and hopefully I can clean my garden of this poison. The one thing I did learn is I can switch to using alfalfa hay and it will be free from Grayson. I have a heavy soil here (SD) and I really need minuare to lighten the soil. Thanks for the heads up so I can deal with this mess. God bless you and Wanda

Roots and Refuge had a big problem with the hay last year. She thought it was round-up. She tests all her hay by growing beans in it first. It quite a problem.

We need more people such as you that can add one plus one equals two.Corporations are literally poisoning people because people today are not smart enough to figure out they are doing it.Our ecosystem plus our weather takes care of its identity until the human factor interferes.Thank you for this!

I used cattle manure last year from the yellow package from a large big box hardware store, and realized/discovered this year that after thinking I had Fusarium or overspray from 24D (because that is what the herbicide damage looked like in the Google image search). Last year it F***ed my radish crops, snap peas, basil, arugula, tomatoes, peppers, squash, and cucumbers plants. I don't know what was in the bag of manure, but my raised bed soil is contaminated. On the flipside, I have three cubic yards of leaf mold compost that's replacing my store bought peat, and additives like cow manure.

I have had a lot of success using scare crows. I put them out at night and pick them up and put them away first thing in the morning. I also make sure to place them in a different spot every night as well. Work’s fantastically!

A tough but important lesson in phytoremediation. Good lesson for all growers, best learned from others than by experience. Thank you for sharing your knowledge.

This makes sense, About 4 years ago we had tomato plants that were doing great. I was worried about bottom rot and saw where a guy had put down straw to keep the dirt from splashing the plants. I went and bought a bail of hay, after about a week or 2 it was like roundup overspray had gotten on the plants and basically killed the plants.

Short story My mom made homemade Spaghetti sauce every year that she froze. She wasn't into canning. This one particular year the fall before my father not only maked the garden three times the size ,He dug and removed four feet of earth of the area and screened it. Then a six wheeler dump truck dropped off a load of fresh chicken crap all wet and nasty. Dad spread it out on the back lawn to dry for a few days Then it was a bucket of crap to two buckets of earth tilling as he went until the hole was three quarters full. Then four buckets of earth to one of crap for the last quarter. Next spring planted maybe twenty tomato plants . I have yet to see a harvest that could compare since. For a solid month and a half we had no kitchen table, no counter space , every window sill full to capacity. She did it right ,down to pealing skins first. We had an eight foot chest freezer full and one half the size. For the next six months if you stopped by to say hi, you left with sauce. I truly think my dad loved to see my mom struggle. She was a tiny woman 4'10" at her tallest. When he was home it was either baked beans or pasta. Don't get me started on the homemade frozen meatballs. I miss the simplicity of it all.😢

Something to think about. In Denver there is a soil additive called "Five way." It is a mixture of peat with the different animal bedding containing composted hay and manures. I added peat only in the past five years and I got better results. When I started this garden in the 1980's, I tried "Cow and peat". The tomatoes grew tall, but with no fruit until fall. Too much nitrogen. We need sphagnum peat with iron sulphate out here due to our alkaline soil. This year the crops are huge and producing big time. Thanks!

Great information. Thank you. I would have never considered this. There is something very wrong with our society when there’s elements that are working against folks trying to make a life.

Interesting. I am glad that you posted this information. Imagine the bigger picture, if the dirt release dust tgen youre just absorbing it when its windy, and it could potentially cross gardens, effect bees, virtually contaminate all of nature...

I definitely needed to see this. We try and be very careful about Grazon.

We use bagged chicken manure and several years ago, horse manure that had rotted down. We have issues with tomato blight but still canned 20+ quarts of tomatoes last year. Mom was a master gardener and while slowing down at 91, she still gets out and gardens.

You just explained exactly what happened to our garden plot. Thank you.

Wow! I never suspected the bagged manure could be harmful. Thanks a million for the info. There's a lot to learn in vegetable cultivation. Have a wonderful day everyone ❤ from western canada.

I have been experimenting with things to keep deer away. They weren't phased by the bone sauce but I mixed Tabasco and some strong essential oils and a container of water and sprayed all around and on my plants and the deer haven't eaten or messed with anything yet. I am praying that it will continue to work. Deer are very unpredictable!

Thank you brother for sharing this important information. It is heartbreaking. I don't know why companies are allowed to sell products like this that are so harmful to the environment. Something needs to be done to stop them from destroying our food supply. I live in New Zealand so will check the next time I am at the farm store.

Thank you for the information on the hay deal, that is priceless

Great video! That agenda is for real. Glad I watched this because I’ve issues with my garden for two years and the manure may be the issue. Thank you!