Who the Hell has their garden tested for lead contamination??? The thought would have never occurred to me. Anybody else routinely test their garden for lead?
“Anybody else routinely test their garden for lead?”
No, but my home wasn’t the scene of a major battle.
It is a good idea if you are starting a garden in an urban area with a long history - like Washington DC. While digging one of my urban gardens years ago it was pretty clear that the yard had been a trash dump 100 years or more years earlier. Well worth testing for lead in those cases -- also the soil along the old houses is often high in lead from the paint leaching into the soil.