vegetable garden
I just moved into a house on the watertown/newton border, and I was thinking about starting a vegetable garden in my backyard when it gets warmer. Should I test the soil to see if it's polluted before growing any vegetables in it? My co-worker told me that umass amherst does soil testing for a fee, but their website says that "pesticide residues and petroleum contaminants are not identified by these tests". It does test for heavy metals, PH, etc, but I'm not sure if that's enough