there are plenty of orchards around my home...you think just rinsing
the scraps off would get rid of any left over pesticides? Wouldn't be
anything that when burned might make my hair fall out or anything like
that would it?
Thanks as always,
Tim

"Tim" > wrote in message
om...
> there are plenty of orchards around my home...you think just rinsing
> the scraps off would get rid of any left over pesticides? Wouldn't be
> anything that when burned might make my hair fall out or anything like
> that would it?
> Thanks as always,
> Tim

The rain will wash off most anything. I use fruit tree cutting all the time.
You eat the fruit don't you?

"Tim" > wrote in message
om...
> there are plenty of orchards around my home...you think just rinsing
> the scraps off would get rid of any left over pesticides? Wouldn't be
> anything that when burned might make my hair fall out or anything like
> that would it?
> Thanks as always,
> Tim

Be careful with apple cuttings. Alar is a fairly persistent chemical.
There is a upscale housing development in the NC mountains that was built in
an old orchard where the kids can't play in their yards due to Alar
persistence.

Michael wrote:

> Be careful with apple cuttings. Alar is a fairly persistent chemical.
> There is a upscale housing development in the NC mountains that was
> built in an old orchard where the kids can't play in their yards due
> to Alar persistence.

Uh huh. Alar was shown to be one of the biggest media-driven, scare-hoaxes
of the Natural Resources Defense Council (the "everything you eat, including
barbecue, bad for you people").

I live smack-dab in the middle of apple country. Many housing developments,
schools, parks and playgrounds have been built on old orchard fields over
the last 15 years. Washington State has the strictest soil assessment
requirements for agricultural land redevelopment into other uses in the US.
NO issues of Alar have ever come up. Every once in a while soil remediation
must be done because of low-levels of lead (from the old days when lead
arsenate was used as a pest control). But even with that, it only requires
the addition of some top soil and a ground cover, like grass, to remediate
the issue.

Apple cuttings are perfectly safe to use, especially if the prunings are
larger diameter branches.

This is just one of many sources that details the alar enviro-scare tactics.
http://www.fumento.com/sualar.html