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How much pesticide "spray drift" or "drift" is there with residential herbicides?

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With the "easy-wand" style of spraying pesticides (where there is maybe some--but not much--of a "mist"), how much blows around, blows off the sprayed target while wet, blows off while dry, etc?

I only care about this as someone in my house has an outdoor vegetable area... I don't want to get a bunch of bad chemicals on their edible plants.

So I'm wanting to know about spray drift so I can figure out if I need to get portable partitions and/or move their plants into the garage while I apply lawn chemicals, or if I can leave the edible plants where they are...

Which brings up another issue, which is adjacent lots where I have no control nor know when lawn spraying will happen and/or those permethrin mosquito gasser things.

I'm aware that herbicides in a windex-style bottle with a spray trigger most certainly do create "mist" which does blow all over the place... but with the "easy wands" on one of the more "drip"-style settings, I don't know how much mist there is.