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How to tell if soil's comtaminated and solutions.

 
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Good morning. I wanna find out how can we tell if our soil's contaminated with slag, waste and stuff that make it unhealthy for crops to grow. How we clean up the mess been left behind from polluters past or present? How we prevent that? If anybody has any ideas. please drop in. Tae care.
 
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Hi Blake,
The easiest way to check for herbicides would be to plant some peas or beans or something that is easily affected. Most other things would have to be soil testing. Beyond what the county extension office does, there are some labs that do much more extensive testing.

To prevent it from happening again, don't let anyone put junk on it :)... but seriously, for the cleanup and whatnot, I have heard good things about both fungi and biochar for locking up the contaminates.

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Matt is right about planting peas or beans as these will quickly show signs.

If I suspected that my soil was contaminated I would learn to grow mushrooms.

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There are also plants that you can grow that will help with contaminated soil, bracken fern is one.

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Beans, peas and mushrooms are a good idea! It's August up in the Midwest and it's too late to plant beans or peas. Is there still time to plant mushrooms for fall?
 
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I am a long way from being a mushroom expert, but I have put in mushrooms much later in the year  than this.

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Hi Blake,
Just to clarify, its not too late in the year to put in beans and peas for testing. You will know in the first couple week after they have germinated whether there is any herbicide affecting plants left. They will be gnarled, or yellow, or sickly looking, etc. You don't need them to actually produce anything, only to watch how they grow over the first month or so. Or if they even germinate.

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Good evening! Just came back from the other board talking about the same thing, but in great detail. Wanna find out how we combat industrial slag and other debris left in our soil from urban industrial pollution and factories. Do slag create a lasting impact on our original soil for years to come? Good night!
 
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What other board are you referring to?

Besides the mushrooms that I mentioned:

Anne said, There are also plants that you can grow that will help with contaminated soil, bracken fern is one.



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I'm talking about the other board about ways to combating slag and other types of large industrial waste left in our soil and ways to restore our soil and the rest of life for a greater future while combating different elements to produce suitable resources to aid our needs in difficult environments from wherever we live. I'm from an urban area that has generations of industrial and toxic waste left in my soil and wanna change for the better to aid all in this present time and in the future. Make sense? The fight has just begun!
 
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