Recent reporting on the threat of weedkiller pollution leaves gardeners without the full facts on peat-free compost, argues John Walker...
... aminopyralid isn't the next chemical casting its long polluter's shadow across our plots, although it works in the same way, causes the same deformed growth, and is equally persistent. Its carrier isn't poisoned manure, but bags of contaminated compost and soil improver. Its origin isn't distant sprayed fields, but our own lawns. Move over aminopyralid, clopyralid, found in some garden lawn weedkillers, is the new home-grown polluter.
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