I'm starting a kitchen garden lazy in the Gers, Auch. My land is south facing, sloping slightly from west to east. At the end of this slope is a fed up, empty at this moment (remains of the past drought.) The fed up fills from below, the ground being on a shallow water table (3 wells are present on the ground of 1000m² only).
Happy with this new playground, I have delimited my plots and began to think about my garden project, etc ... but here, I find myself in front of a big problem: the fed up served, the previous owner (a different kind of lazy) discharge.
Yesterday, I went down to this pool (where nothing has been thrown away for at least 5 years) to pick up, without forcing or digging, 3 crates of rubbish: old plastic bottles disintegrated from I do not know what solvent, old rusty tin aerosol bottles, "super 95" plastic canisters, medicine boxes, decomposed pipes, many glass bottles, bits of scrap metal of all kinds, etc ...
Suffice to say that I quickly disillusioned.
I must also specify that north of the ground there are the remains of a huge fire where all types of stuff were burned (I find a lot of carbonized nails, plastic pegs, polystyrene melted ...).
My question is: do you think I should give up my garden project? I really fear that I-do-not-know-what-poisons end up in my vegetables in the end. It's a shame because the soil is beautiful: superb clay-humic complex, a life abounding, earthworms are collected without digging, there are cuticles everywhere ...
Are there any scientists in the room who have an enlightened perspective on this kind of pollution?
PS: I do not intend to spend the equivalent of a year of buying vegetables in soil analysis
