In exactly one year, we are moving into a four-apartment building. Each apartment has its own garden around the building.
Two of the apartments have been vacant for a long time, and their back gardens have been used as vegetable gardens by other tenants. One is ours.
The area in front has been treated with glyphosate. I have no idea how long. One part belongs to us (we can use the other part if we want), and I would like to get rid of the glyphosate in the soil and eventually plant vegetables there.
Mainstream science says one thing, and those I trust more say another.
Does anyone have practical experience and concrete knowledge about this?
Certain plants are better at remediation than others, for glyphosate I’m not sure of one that pulls it out. However, you want to add mycorrhizal fungi to get the beneficial bacterias back into the soil.
You could keep it as a flower garden, or if you are hell-bent on edible foods, consider a raised bed with vegetables that run shallow roots.
I was thinking about raised beds and will do that. But something needs to be done anyway.
So, first put on straw and other organic matter, manure, mulch and leave it like that. Maybe put mycelium of stropharia rugosoannulata?
Worst case ‘half life’ of glyphosate is 4 to 6 months… (typically shorter).
Once you can grow normal looking broad leaf vegetables you should be ok.
Personally I’d err on the side of caution and wait for the next season (after everything looks normal).
Do i ever second this right here.You can get some impressive yeilds in some containers and the best part is thier mobile so you can move around and adjust as the plants grow.Im a potted plant man my self but ive heard that grow bags do well for this purpose as well
Im going to build a cheap A frame Stick frame and put a Clear tarp over my outdoor grow this year for rain season towards fall in the end here in to keep the Water Off of them.Im Weary of bringing them in for the hitchhikers that like to come in and get warmed up took me almost a year to kill my thrips i had from bringing one in and i dont take any chances anymore
