Vegetables Gardening - Growing Organic Vegetables

Leslie,
  Herbicides break down under heat and exposure to ultra violet rays ie the sun. Grass clippings have a high nitrogen content which is conducive to creating very high heat and if you were to combine them with a high nitrogen manure the herbicide over the course of a few weeks would be pretty much nullified. The problem would be the number of times and the time lapse between introducing more of these clippings. The other problem is that some herbicides are not fixed. That is to say they can travel via water or other types of moisture like Compost Tea. So this might make you decide not to use this source of green in your compost bin. On a side note: If you have walked on the treated lawn and then gone into your house and if you have carpets the life span of the herbicide has just been increased by 18 months because the amount of Ultra Violet rays in the home is greatly reduced. So you might want to steam clean the carpets and avoid walking on the lawn all
together and see if ya can convince the owner to switch to and Organic lawn Herbicide. Give him the address of Gardens Alive.com. They have a whole selection. And then you will not only have saved some human lives but the lives of those in the rest of creation to! YOU will be a Hero!!
jeff 

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From: Leslie <lesscrim@telus.net>
To: Organic_Gardening@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Tuesday, January 17, 2012 11:55 AM
Subject: [Organic_Gardening] Re: Herbicide residues


 
Hi ... I just got a note saying a hyperlink in an old post I made wasn't working so I have edited it.

Leslie
Canada

--- In Organic_Gardening@yahoogroups.com, "Leslie" <lesscrim@...> wrote:
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> I believe someone else already said that the clippings would be a bad thing to add to the compost but the leaves would be fine.
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> This is true. The problem with the clippings is that the herbicide used may be one of the persistent ones that can really do a number on your garden. The leaves would not have the same problem.
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> Most herbicides and pesticides do breakdown well in compost. I have a page on my website that goes into more detail about the herbicide issue. Go to http://www.the-compost-gardener.com/picloram.html
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> Cheers
> Leslie
> Canada
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> >
> > On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 8:16 AM, Donna <gone2thebirds@> wrote:
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> > >
> > > Hi,
> > > I'm new to the group. I'll have lots of questions. 1st one, I have a
> > > neighbor that bags his grass clippings. I'm sure he would let me have them,
> > > the only draw back is he has people come and put all kinds of things on the
> > > grass, weed killers, chemical fertilizers, etc. How safe would the clippings
> > > be to use as compost? What about the leaves he collects in the fall?
> > >
> > > --Donna in northern Indiana, USA
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
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