Yay its herbicide week.

[Nematode]

Third year in a row my plants got blasted with herbicide.
Always first or second week of June. Sux.
Cobra heads, epinasty and bumpy stems.

Sungold, sunsugar ride through like it's nothing. Cosmonaut and Kellogg's took a hit.

Knock wood doesn't look as bad as last year. Yet.

[Worth1]

Where in hell is this coming from?


Worth

[Nematode]

Wish I knew, then could try and address it.

[carolyn137]

Originally Posted by Nematode

Wish I knew, then could try and address it.

It's MA.Put up notices with reward $ to be offered for anyone who can give you a clue.

Do the same with your local Paper.

Contact all the lawn care folks in your area,see if they can give you a lead, but I doubt any of them would fess up to being the perp.

So see what your neighbors have to say about it,especially those with lawn care service, have you asked them?

Just a few simple things to do to help you solve this.

Carolyn

[Worth1]

I would go up wind and look for dead plants someplace.
I came unglued when my neighbor lady's yard people sprayed it around her fence awhile back.
Not 40 feet from my garden.
Thank god the wind was out of the north that day.

[Hoosier]

If it's a lawn care company they should know better. Tomatoes are more sensitive though and that they may not know. They are responsible for their drift however. I have a corn/bean field about 300 ft from my garden and they usually spray roundup when the wind is blowing 30 mph from that direction. Lucked out this year and the wind was with me.

[carolyn137]

Originally Posted by Worth1

I would go up wind and look for dead plants someplace.
I came unglued when my neighbor lady's yard people sprayed it around her fence awhile back.
Not 40 feet from my garden.
Thank god the wind was out of the north that day.

See my post above yours Worth, I was much more comprehensive in what I would do,but stopped short of suggesting calling the police,the FBI or CIA.

Carolyn,who had a lawn care service just once when I was in Denver.I had hired the lawn service based on excellent reports from neighbors.They were excellent, a team of Japanese men who arrived when they should, did an excellent job as well.But then one day a problem arose.to get to my backyard one had to go through a wooden picket gate fence.That meant that the new large mower they had bought wouldn't fit,so very apologetically said they'd have to charge me I think it was $5 more per visit since they'd have to always bring the smaller mower with them.I said OK.

[Father'sDaughter]

In MA it's required that lawn service companies leave a sign on the lawn after they apply herbicides or pesticides. As soon as you notice the damage, take a swing through your neighborhood and look for one.

http://www.mass.gov/eea/docs/agr/pes...gnposting2.pdf

[Nematode]

Thanks FD. I'll look around.

[Worth1]

Come to think of it now, I have an inexplicable symptom on my okra that is now going away.
Not for sure what it was but it has outgrown it.
One or two of the cucumber leaves looked funny too.
They were just here the other day.
Older couple, sounds like they are from PA.
Worth

[clkeiper]

I am "fortunate" enough to have two neighbors who have used 2-4d in the past... one every year and several yards down so I am a little less worried about it than the one next door. I have walked to the men and said not to spray here today since the wind was blowing my direction or they would have to pay for all of my garden and loss produce income and since I grow to sell it would be a of of money... they left without spraying the lawn.