Carla Melton

Well thanks for the encouragement. Hubby is doing the digging and the pile of concrete lumpsgrows. Most of the bricks are intact and beautiful old bricks I read that article on mushrooms....that was great and yes very hopeful. Its good to hear about positive news rather than environmental collapse.
Thanks heaps.

Hi. I'm starting out and digging up a patch of lawn to make a vegie garden. I'm in NZ and following set up guidelines from Kay Baxter which involve double digging rather than a no-dig setup. However we've discovered a path and bricks set in concrete / cement under the lawn. I think an old garden shed used to be in this spot. Should I avoid this spot after all? Do you think it is likely to be contaminated by toxins? I'm just looking for a comomon sense answer here so I don't do something that would be clearly stupid. One day I'll do a soil test but it costs about $200 so I'm going to postpone that for now.