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04-01-2017, 09:24 PM | #1 |
Rose Garden
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If you wanted to make sure your yard was safe / good...
We live in an area where most of the houses are old enough to have lead paint and other dangers. Once we rented a place next door to someone whose yard was contaminated by a rusted tank of heating oil, if I recall correctly.
What are some ways to prepare your land to make sure it's safe?
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04-23-2017, 06:30 AM | #2 |
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Re: If you wanted to make sure your yard was safe / good...
I believe fungi will sequester heavy metals and toxins from the soil. So perhaps grow a crop of ground cover mushrooms? Harvest to throw away not compost back into the soil. Then plant a tilling ground over like daikon or black radishes. After that a year of nitrogen fixing legumes. There would likely still be a trace of toxins in the soil after that so it would be a good idea to get into some hardcor composting to cover the land with about a foot deep where growing edibles. Maybe that's a bit extreme. Perhaps just a raised bed of about two feet filled with compost and mulch might work and get to be enjoyed the same season.
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04-23-2017, 06:39 AM | #3 |
Rose Garden
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Re: If you wanted to make sure your yard was safe / good...
What are you wanting to do in the yard? Have children no play on the grass grow food?
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04-23-2017, 08:31 AM | #4 |
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Re: If you wanted to make sure your yard was safe / good...
I meant for gardening food. They do already play on the existing grass. I just feel like eating from it is a new level of trust.
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04-23-2017, 09:26 AM | #5 |
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Re: If you wanted to make sure your yard was safe / good...
I wouldn't use existing soil to garden, I'd use raised beds with new soil.
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04-23-2017, 12:02 PM | #6 |
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Re: If you wanted to make sure your yard was safe / good...
I don't *know* that anything is wrong with the soil, just that it's an old neighborhood with old houses.
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04-23-2017, 01:17 PM | #7 |
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Re: If you wanted to make sure your yard was safe / good...
you could take a sample of the soil down to the county agent and talk with them. I am not sure if they would give you a fee, but you could discuss with them and also they can analyze the soil to tell you what you might want to add to make it stronger to have a healthy garden.
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04-23-2017, 02:22 PM | #9 |
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Re: If you wanted to make sure your yard was safe / good...
Raised beds would be an easy way to deal with it. You can put in soil you trust and get a good mix of nutrents in it.
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