My City Garden: Boston-area yard-sharing service for urban gardeners
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@jesnow wrote: Two words: "Lead contamination". Cambridge and Boston were the sites of extensive smelting operations (Paul Revere made what?), and that left a TON of lead in the soil. NOTHING grown in...
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@gmoke wrote: As a one-time Cooperative Extension urban gardening agent, soil lead is indeed a problem, mostly from leaded gasoline and the leaching of lead paint. However, there are many things you...
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@technogeekagain wrote: MCG's website is aware of the lead issue and suggests gardens not be immediately adjacent to houses to reduce paint contamination, recommends soil testing, and suggests...
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@jesnow wrote: What I'm saying is the contamination in Cambridge is mostly not fromthose sources, but from 19th century and earlier smelting operations. Ihave seen a lead contamination map of the...
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@AcerPlatanoides wrote: That's part of the story, sure. As is lead paint, and ash as well... but it's hardly the whole story. There is plenty of good land in Boston, though you best do your homework....
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@AcerPlatanoides wrote: jesnow: I have seen a lead contamination map of the boston/cambridge/somervillearea, and it's pretty bad. Where is this map? Read full topic
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@jesnow wrote: Two words: "Lead contamination". Cambridge and Boston were the sites of extensive smelting operations (Paul Revere made what?), and that left a TON of lead in the soil. NOTHING grown in...
View ArticleMy City Garden: Boston-area yard-sharing service for urban gardeners
@gmoke wrote: As a one-time Cooperative Extension urban gardening agent, soil lead is indeed a problem, mostly from leaded gasoline and the leaching of lead paint. However, there are many things you...
View ArticleMy City Garden: Boston-area yard-sharing service for urban gardeners
@technogeekagain wrote: MCG's website is aware of the lead issue and suggests gardens not be immediately adjacent to houses to reduce paint contamination, recommends soil testing, and suggests...
View ArticleMy City Garden: Boston-area yard-sharing service for urban gardeners
@jesnow wrote: What I'm saying is the contamination in Cambridge is mostly not fromthose sources, but from 19th century and earlier smelting operations. Ihave seen a lead contamination map of the...
View ArticleMy City Garden: Boston-area yard-sharing service for urban gardeners
@AcerPlatanoides wrote: That's part of the story, sure. As is lead paint, and ash as well... but it's hardly the whole story. There is plenty of good land in Boston, though you best do your homework....
View ArticleMy City Garden: Boston-area yard-sharing service for urban gardeners
@AcerPlatanoides wrote: jesnow: I have seen a lead contamination map of the boston/cambridge/somervillearea, and it's pretty bad. Where is this map? Read full topic
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