And You Thought You were Being All Natural and Good With Your Backyard Gardening
May 15, 2009
Think again! That backyard tomato may not be so good afterall! Yikes!
For Urban Gardeners, Lead Is a Concern – NYTimes.com. “FRANK MEUSCHKE’S garden, which surrounds the house he rents in Brooklyn, is a bountiful source of tomatoes, snap peas, green beans, peppers, lettuce and multiple varieties of flowers. It is also, as he recently discovered to his dismay, a rich repository of lead. He had his soil tested last month, and the analysis showed more than 90 times the amount of lead expected to occur naturally.”
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