Watch your chemicals, folks!

vegmandan · « **Reply #1 on:** July 03, 2008, 21:19 »

It's not us gardeners that are the problem,it's the bl##dy irresposnible farmers and commercial growers spraying everything with a complete disregard for anything or anyone else with god only knows what. :evil: :evil:

gobs · « **Reply #2 on:** July 03, 2008, 21:23 »

Good point, but should be aware, apparently, Levingtons compost contains similarly deadly chemicals for bees and other organisms.

mashauk · « **Reply #3 on:** July 03, 2008, 21:58 »

It's one thing after the other at the moment isn't it depressing?

compostqueen · « **Reply #4 on:** July 03, 2008, 23:14 »

Levingtons gets flagged up as being the best quality too. So, what's in it to kill bees? I'd hate to think I'd been responsible for killing bees :shock:

gobs · « **Reply #5 on:** July 04, 2008, 05:35 »

some nicotinoid.

yes, I was using it too, feeling real bad about it.

gobs · « **Reply #6 on:** July 04, 2008, 10:37 »

LINK

Also used for soil treatment, and seed treatment and is value added to some compost, I don't know how many types contain it.

The mad thing is like you treat your beans for weevils, to poison the bees that would pollinate them.

Sadgit · « **Reply #7 on:** July 04, 2008, 10:45 »

Some blokes at our site put parafin in their weedkiller and spray that stuff everywhere!! There were pools of water with it in and in 1 hour I found 4 or 5 dead birds!!!

SalJ1980 · « **Reply #8 on:** July 04, 2008, 19:53 »

Quote from: "Sadgit"

Some blokes at our site put parafin in their weedkiller and spray that stuff everywhere!! There were pools of water with it in and in 1 hour I found 4 or 5 dead birds!!!

:shock: :shock: :shock: That's shocking! :evil: They should be shot for doing that. Or fed paraffin to see how they like it.

gobs · « **Reply #9 on:** July 04, 2008, 21:56 »

The birds might be tragic and the parrafin is yuk, but the important thing here is that bees are a primary pollinator of all sorts of stuff we grow or eat, if we keep killing them, we won't have much to eat. End of story...

Looks and sounds nothing - as it represents itself in nothingness - but is much more important than any other chemical scares, threats, etc.

BigPaddy · « **Reply #10 on:** July 04, 2008, 22:14 »

I dont want to stand up for farmers, but they use approved fertilisers. Government and their scientists are often at fault. Science isnt always exact and doesnt take into account all the variables. Nothing against scientists either, but government is another thing.

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Watch your chemicals, folks!

vegmandan