Contaminated.
During the second world war and the years after the war people grew there own vegetables and fruit in the citys thinking that it was the safest thing to do. They were proud of there efforts to feed the family from there own back yards the trouble is that despite there efforts to grow the best looking potatoes,cabbages and the rest the soil was contaminated. It was years later that laboratory tests showed that the soil was high in toxins.
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