I am new to this site and just about at the end of my rope with herbicide problems.
Last spring the local feed store sprayed the field that borders my garden with a 2,4-D - Dicamba herbicide and killed most of my garden(about 1/2 acre). The Texas Department of Agriculture did an investigation and found the feed store in violation of the herbicide labeling.
I was going to just write it off to a lost season except that this year nothing is growing in the back half of my garden, planted Roma green Beans and Clemson Spineless Okra there. Going on 3 weeks and not a thing sprouting.
Question is, how do I go about testing the soil for residual contamination? And more importantly how do I remedy his in time to salvage this garden year.
Their is likely 2 years of contamination in the soil. He started spraying the year before last but I was to naive to think that someone would be that careless with spray and just chalked that lost year up to a bad garden season, everyone eventually has one. I put 2 and 2 to gether when I caught him last year spraying to within 10 feet of the garden border with a 10 mph wind blowing it directly over my property.
I dont know if this is a proper place to find this kind of help but I can find it nowhere else, no one seems willing or able to even provide an opinion on this much less advice on how to deal with it.
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