The Challenges of Gardening in a City

Lead, arsenic, mattress frames and other urban gardening discoveries

“Get your soil tested!” That’s what everyone told me before moving into our new house. I did get it tested and our results didn’t reveal anything too shocking but I heard from many folks who found heavy metals in their garden soil. It got me thinking about how these foreign materials got there. Why is lead all over Pittsburgh yards? And how did arsenic…