Gardening & Landscaping
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How do you ensure that the soil is safe to grow food?
I want to grow some herbs and maybe some tomatoes in the backyard. I'm feeling paranoid that the previous owners have put poisonous/toxic stuff back there. For instance I know some people put moth balls in the soil to keep cats (and their poop) away.
Besides putting in a top layer of new soil is there anything else I should do?
Re: How do you ensure that the soil is safe to grow food?
We are using the Square Foot Gardening method this year for the first time. What I like about it is that you mix your own soil, so you control everything that is in it, and you don't have to worry about the crap that the builders just sodded over in your yard or anything else that might be in your ground. Check out www.squarefootgardening.com for more info. Here are pictures of ours that we just planted Wednesday.
The fences are temporary to keep our dogs out of them. The Sq Ft Gardening book describes a removable cover, but we just did this for now. We eventually want to build a cute picket fence around our entire garden area.
Sorry for making the picture so big. I tried shrinking it down.
The box on the right is a standard 4ftX4ftX6in garden. The left is 4ftX2ftX1ft for root veggies. We have 2 squares of carrots, 3 yukon golds, 2 white potatoes, and 1 blue potatoes.