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From:
york,pa,usa
Age:
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Re: Gardening..
Posted:
Jun 26, 2007, 12:42 AM
Good to hear you are making a effort. It is easy to make a raised bed out of pressure treated 4x4's. It doesn't require much time. Maybe build it 3 layers high and add my usual ingredients. 1 bale of peat moss to about 6 or 7 bags of top soil. Mix well and insert plants. It may be too late but I imagine you may get some results with much watering..Oh well maybe next year..
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May 15, 2002
From:
washington state Home page
Re: Gardening..
Posted:
Jun 26, 2007, 3:21 AM
Raised garden beds for veggies. The old CCA lumber was banned a few years back due to the arsenic's, acetone was then left out and a more copper based treatment is now being used--which will still leech out dyes and chemicals. The treated wood shows up browntone-----But where it sits in the lumber yards the surrounding gray asphalt is green(if rained on) from the copper leeching out. I would suggest a natural wood with no treatment such as hemlock,doug fir,or cedar........The life span is not as long but is safer.
Posts:
101
Registered:
Jan 16, 2004
From:
york,pa,usa
Age:
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Re: Gardening..
Posted:
Jul 1, 2007, 1:03 AM
I have heard this argument before Mick. I am not sure how contaminated pressure treated lumber truly is? Millions of kids everywhere are playing on it. As a carpenter I know I have inhaled my share of PT dust. I do try to avoid this. On hot days it is difficult to breathe through a respirator. The new PT is supposed to be treated with copper I think. I know copper can be poisonous as well. Well everyone is getting a good dose of copper because most homes have it in the plumbing. On a another note I rather eat vegetables from my yard than some genetically altered crap from general mills. Don't even get me started on aspartame.."nutra sweet" or teflon pans. Guess I better pour them raised beds out of concrete or lay stone.. Good looking out though Mick.
