Re: plants dying
At 11:13 PM 7/30/98 -0500, you wrote:
>At 10:03 PM -0500 7/30/98, Pat Mitchell wrote:
>
>>>to toss and bury the stuff on the site. I think on-site disposal is
>>>generally not legal but I was surprised to have had several friends
>>>with new homes mention finding plant-killing debris buried in their
>>>soil.
>>
>>Okay . . .I've never built a house . . .
>>what could they throw in the yard that would kill plants???
>>
>>Just curious.
>
>I doubt if I can remember all of the things everyone mentioned but the
>ones that come to mind are paints, stains, varnishes, solvents,
>adhesives and caulk. The friends I most felt sorry for lost several
>thousand dollars worth of plantings. They lost all their foundation
>plantings on two sides of their house and some things in the front yard
>as well.
>
>It was a real eye-opener for me when I mentioned this experience to
>other friends and they would rattle off a list of things they had found
>in the yards of their newly-built homes. Their problems certainly made
>me feel a little silly about grumbling about my awful clay.
>
>
>---
>Peggy Enes (peggy@unicom.net) Zone 5/6
>
Add tarpaper, asphalt shingles, cement clumps, drywall, cabinet remnants
impregnated with toxic chemicals, building paper, insulation, empty caulk
tubes, etc. The machinery used during construction also can compact the
soil to such an extent you have locations of hardpan. Margaret
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