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Re: Roundup - Safe or Not?

At 09:06 PM 5/18/98 -0500, you wrote:
>
>My query to members of the group is, how safe is roundup in a mixed
>vegetable and cut flower garden.

	This is the kind of question that can cause hate mail to fly 8-)

	But, since I already get lots of hate mail, I will answer it. Roundup is
not "safe" in the sense that if you use it you will no longer have an
Oragnic (capital 'O') Garden. It is also not safe in that it might hurt
your plants. 
	But everything I have read ( that didn't come with threats of bodily harm
or comments about my ancestry ) says that using it near your garden won't
hurt you. In most normal use, the active ingredient breaks down into a
common salt in a few hours. I think I remember that it was immediately upon
contact with any Iron compound.
	I don't use it in my garden. I have used it in the past to control weeds
in places that were unreachable with my mower or weed whacker. I don't
consider myself a branch of Dow Chemical for doing so. Nor do I hold myself
responsible for the Hole in the Ozone Theory.
	I imagine that if you wet down everything an hour of so before, used it
very specifically, didn't water it again for 24 hours (be sure it doesn't
rain) then washed everything with dilluted dish soap, that you wouldn't
have to worry about anything but the opinions of some of the more outspoken
Organic Gardeners.
		YMMV

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