18 months ago, my husband and I bought a house with a yard where roughly 3/4 of it was contaminated with lead. Most of Eastern Omaha was polluted by a lead smelter that has been long closed and the EPA sued them for the widespread environmental damage they caused. The settlement money has been used to essentially replace every residential yard affected by this problem.
The previous owners did little landscaping and so here we are. They finished cleaning the contaminated dirt out of our yard today and replaced it with clean soil that evidently came from a farm field. I say this because the entire block smells like a barnyard and the dogs have been eating any cow nugget that they have been able to find. But oh! What fertile soil this is! The smell will dissipate and the nutrients will remain. That is gardening gold.
Readers, do you know what sheer torture it is for a crazy gardener to do almost nothing for 18 months? Because we don't have children, we were far down on the priority list. Maybe someone finally heard my cries of despair. (Literally there were tears on a few occasions.) Bulb planting will commence soon and this winter I can curl up with my seed catalogs (gardener's porn) and dream about what this barren landscape can become.
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