Reply To: The Toxic Bouquet – Pesticides

[JD]

You’ve come a long way since the dairy farm!

As a quick follow up have you ever done any experiments on comparing veg grown in your own composts from a ‘cold’ mainly fungal heap verses a ‘hot’ mainly bacterial heap? Or know of research by those who have?

Secondly, do you know of research by anyone who has tested compost made from ‘conventional’ veg, mainly brassicas, sprayed in a gamut of pesticides including the said neonicotinoids, to see how far the residues break down and whether they are ‘safe’ to use? Might be the only way I can find enough material at the moment to build a compost heap but I’m wary of the residues which might remain. Echos of aminopyralids.

Thanks for taking the time to answer my questions Charles. I appreciate you’re a busy man. Good luck with the diary. I shall be adding one to my collection.