[cg] need advice on site with high lead

Hi, I'm organizing a vacant lot community garden in Washington DC (size 60'x70'). Unfortunately, the soil test results came back from UMass with the following lead levels: extracted lead=151ppm, estimated total lead=1146 ppm. We need advice on how to approach gardening in this lot. A cou

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bulk delivery of something like half topsoil and half mushroom soil ---Mike McG - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, May 09, 2005 3:55 PM Subject: [cg] need advice on site wit

RE: [cg] need advice on site with high lead

1-7694 f860/951-7244 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, May 09, 2005 3:56 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [cg] need advice on site with high lead Hi, I'm organizing a vacant lot community garden in Washington DC

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Judy, Mustard will absorb heavy metals. It can be planted and then disposed of properly. Do not compost or eat. Also, beer can be added to the soil to assist microorganisms in cleaning the soil. Any beer will do, the cheapest is fine. Don9t have any resources, this is from memory. Good luck,

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It's not the norm in DC. I'm finding it recently in gardens in the Capitol Hill area, but not elsewhere. Not to say it isn't very important always to test. I'd think it important to find out how deep the lead is in the soil before just deciding to remove a certain amount of soil. What if

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Jack Hale and Mike McGrath are probably the most knowledgable folks I know on this listserv re lead paint, and heavy metal remediation in gardens. Period. Jack even had a phytoremediation study in one of his gardens paid for by a large commerical concern a few years ago, if I'm not mistaken.

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Hi Judy, We went through the lead thing here years ago. We had advice from ARS and from the Penn State folk. We even had our plants tested, washed and unwashed and found that any lead "in" the plants was actually air deposited and had not been taken up from the soil. We learned, among other

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know more. -- Maria Volunteer gardener and past garden coordinator Suydam Street Community Garden New Brunswick, NJ - Original Message - From: "Libby J. Goldstein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, May 09, 2005 8:35 PM