Raised Bed Preservative

**"Kim Rush" R*@usna.ars.usda.gov**

We're trying Lifetime Treatment this year on some of our arbors and
trellises in our youth garden.  It's a non-toxic wood preservative.  The
verdict is still out for us because we just applied it, but you may want
to give it a whirl.  Good luck and let me know if you find another
solution.

http://www.valhalco.com/

 Kim :o)

Kim Rush

Program Director
Washington Youth Garden
at the U.S. National Arboretum
Ph:  (202) 426-0176
Fax: (202) 544-5398
Email: rushk@usna.ars.usda.gov

2004 Catalogue For Philanthropy Charity
(http://www.catalogueforphilanthropy.org/dc/)

The Washington Youth Garden is a project of the Friends of the National
Arboretum, U.S. National Arboretum, National Capital Area Federation of
Garden Clubs and Slow Food DC.  For more information please visit us at
http://www.fona.org/youthgarden.html and
http://www.usna.usda.gov/Gardens/collections/youth.html

"Gardening is more than just digging, planting, pulling weeds, and
picking vegetables and fruits.   It is also the savoring and cultivation
of life."

                                                   - Robert Rodale

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Message: 1
From: "Sharon Gordon" <gordonse@one.net>
To: <community_garden@mallorn.com>
Date: Tue, 10 May 2005 11:09:11 -0400
Subject: [cg] Safest paint for raised beds

What have people found to be the safest paints for raised beds?  We
know to
avoid the old or new styles of treated wood.  And redwood and cedar are
out
of the budget.  Mortered bricks/cement blocks/stones are not allowed,
and
the water on the slope would disassemble unmortered items in the next
big
rain.  So we are looking for outdoor paints or treatments that are ok
around
food plants.

Thanks for any ideas you might have that we could try.

Sharon
gordonse@one.net 

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Cc: <community_garden@mallorn.com>
From: "Libby J. Goldstein" <libby@igc.org>
Subject: Re: [cg] Ideas for community gardening social events and
fundraisers?
Date: Tue, 10 May 2005 11:43:55 -0400
To: "Hadley Milliken" <hmilliken.acb@verizon.net>

Hadley,

Among the events we do/have done at our garden:

annual barbecue early each fall

Iris fest (we have a ton of them) in May with lemonade and cookies and

such like

plant and white elephant sale also in May (or late April) in 
conjunction with our neighborhood's house and garden tour

summer solstice fest

annual winter party (held at an indoor venue) with craft sale

tours for any visitors who show up and for the Neighborhood Gardens 
Assoc/ a Phila Land Trust (our landlord)

Libby

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