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Zana · December 21, 2009

I don't know if the soil is contaminated, but I'm hoping that I may have been able to avoid that, with the vast majority of my "soil mix" sitting in covered rubbermaid garbage/rubbish cans for close to a year now. Since I didn't grow at home, almost none of the soil mix was exposed to the Blight.

So I would be curious to know if that may or may not be an advantage for next year. Or are the flower beds contaminated and will they therefore contaminate anything I put in pots/containers this year?

December 21, 2009	#2
Zana Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Southwestern Ontario, Canada Posts: 4,521	I don't know if the soil is contaminated, but I'm hoping that I may have been able to avoid that, with the vast majority of my "soil mix" sitting in covered rubbermaid garbage/rubbish cans for close to a year now. Since I didn't grow at home, almost none of the soil mix was exposed to the Blight. So I would be curious to know if that may or may not be an advantage for next year. Or are the flower beds contaminated and will they therefore contaminate anything I put in pots/containers this year?