RickCorey said:
You really, really do not want to eat anything that has absorbed much lead.
I would send the soil to some landfill rather than wonder about residual lead levels.
LOL, on lead content and dealing with government rules.
My mother had a gov. paid, if she stayed in the house, house improvement.
One thing as the house is full of lead paint was they tested the soil around the house for lead.
They found one patch, three by four more or less, by the porch, where I imagine due to scraping and sanding I had done approx. ten years before.
The odd thing, and the rules are just plain odd, was they did not test the flower gardent right below the porch windows at all.
They legally had to dig it up and move it.
I asked what they would do with it, and they said haul it away unless I had a place x feet from the house they could put it.
I was working the rose garden over big time and I said put it in the rose garden. They said thanks as that made it a lot easier for them.
The rose garden is less than six feet from the vegetable garden.
That lead in the lawn never could ever do harm, yet they legally put it where by the paranoid experts today it was technically closer to where it might cause harm if I went out there and ate dirt balls.
