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UK suburban soil can also be bad as people used to throw fireplace ashes in their gardens, which can concentrate contaminants. I ate from my home allotment for

by ljf 5y ago

UK suburban soil can also be bad as people used to throw fireplace ashes in their gardens, which can concentrate contaminants. I ate from my home allotment for years until a neighbour told me he had recently tested his soil and found it heavy with lead and other rubbish.

agumonkey 5y ago
did he find a way to de-pollute ?
- mythrwy 5y ago
  Soaking the soil with EDTA solution might do it. (EDTA is also used medically for heavy metal poisoning).
- Alex3917 5y ago
  You can bioremediate lead using sunflowers.
- ljf 5y ago
  No he just grew flowers from then on and I moved to pots and grow bags