Almost everyone I know of that gardens at home just tills the soil they have available. Gardening soil isn’t cheap and they view it as an unnecessary expense. It’s especially hard to convince people in rural areas that just using the dirt out back can be harmful.
I grew up in the country and my grandparents never bought any soil, but God knows what they added to it. Arsenic used to be common in pesticides, for example.
AFAIK it’s not sold anymore, my point is the land they’ve been using has been contaminated for generations. But everyone they know, often including their parents and grandparents, who used local soil was ‘fine’ so there’s ‘no reason’ to spend money on gardening soil. Especially when that would be an amount of money they’d actually miss. It’s an unfortunate risk:reward evaluation against free food.
Almost everyone I know of that gardens at home just tills the soil they have available. Gardening soil isn’t cheap and they view it as an unnecessary expense. It’s especially hard to convince people in rural areas that just using the dirt out back can be harmful.
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I grew up in the country and my grandparents never bought any soil, but God knows what they added to it. Arsenic used to be common in pesticides, for example.
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AFAIK it’s not sold anymore, my point is the land they’ve been using has been contaminated for generations. But everyone they know, often including their parents and grandparents, who used local soil was ‘fine’ so there’s ‘no reason’ to spend money on gardening soil. Especially when that would be an amount of money they’d actually miss. It’s an unfortunate risk:reward evaluation against free food.
At least there’s no aftertaste.