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Re: site for new trends in gardening?

Well, here's something new that garden writers may want to mull over.  I've been following Merit, a Bayer product nearly from the time it was first used in the US market.  Bayer repeatedly told us that this product was 'safe' as it was virtually immobile in the top layers of soil.  Well, garden writers...guess what?  I hear that traces of the product are showing up in some test wells and that the NYS Department of Environmental Conservation has instituted some restrictions on it's use on Long Island...which has sandy as opposed to organic soils.  Reminds me a whole lot of the Temik (aldibarb) problem from years ago which contaminated both private and public water supplies in several states.

Is this a new trend in gardening?  Everybody used Merit so it must be safe.  Right?

Andrew Messinger
The Hampton Gardener
The Hampton Gardener is a Registered Trade Mark
(Published every Thursday in the Southampton Press)

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