Re: What's on your mind?
Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2014 2:38 pm
I have 6000 bricks that I need to clean. Many of them are pretty good because the building was so old that the mortar just fell off them as powder. The fellow that delivered them said his Father told him to screen the mortar and spread it around his cabbage. He planted 150 plants that year in an open field with a lot of rabbits in the area. He harvested 149 cabbages that year, nothing touched them. The old mortar dust kept everything away. I too would worry about Lead paint in a building that old Lolly. Plaster or plaster board can be used as a soil amendment if new but in a building that old you know it would have lead paint. I think you should stay away.