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Old 14-01-2016, 08:08 PM posted to uk.rec.gardening
Jeff Layman[_2_] Jeff Layman[_2_] is offline
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Default Mineraly enriched soil?

On 14/01/16 15:30, Chris Hogg wrote:
On Thu, 14 Jan 2016 13:33:57 +0000, Jeff Layman
wrote:

On 13/01/16 22:55, Charlie Pridham wrote:

That was my thought! we are not supposed to eat any root veg from our
garden due to heavy metal and arsenic in the sub soil so not perhaps the
best way to advertise veg!!


Charlie's property is in a village that was down-wind of a local arsenic works,
active before WW1


I had wondered why all those plants I bought from Charlie last June
smelt of garlic! ;-)

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Jeff