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Fri, May 6, 11 at 14:21
| We have city sewer system and lines to it are in the front of the house to the street. The back yard was dug up to lay drainage pipes to the woods in back to stop the erosion in back yard caused by rain water coming off the house. Soil is clay. Many tulip poplar roots had to be removed. While the yard was dug up, the smell was really very terrible. No smell now that yard was smoothed out with grass and vegetable garden growing. My question is: Could there be something so bad in the earth there that the vegetables from my garden are not safe to eat? I do only organic gardening. This is central NJ. I am only interested in the safety of eating my garden vegetables and fruit from my fruit trees. |
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| When a soil is anaerobic, absence of air, such as sub soil is it te4nds to have a not very pleasant smell, sometimes putrid. But if that odor is more like sewage that can indicate a problem. I do know that putrid smelling soils will change to pleasant smelling after enough organic matter is in the soil, although I've not had occassion to dig very deep lately to see if that holds true 2 or 3 feet down. |
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