I’ve been reading up on the various persistent herbicides that are out there and how they can pass through animals and composting intact and I was wondering how significant an issue this would be for those of us gardening in Australia.

For my fellow gardeners, I’d like to know whether you’ve encountered this issue in your gardens and what steps you take to reduce the risk of contaminated materials entering your garden?

    • StryderNotaviOP
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      7 months ago

      Yes, exactly those. It sounds like there are others (chrolopyralids, picloram and others), but aminopyralids are the longest lived in the soil, so the biggest concern.

      A lot of the resources on it are discussing the issue from a US or UK perspective, and while a lot of the issues are similar it doesn’t help me assess how much of a risk a bag of manure from the local Bunnings or garden centre might really represent to my vege garden.

      It’d also be worth hearing if there’s been any regulatory responses to this issue locally