Re: Safe wood

**K* M* <k*@iol.ie>**

On 16 Feb 2010, at 19:03, Gordon Hale wrote:

> I have been using pressure two by eights as bed formers for over forty years without worrying about the dread "leaching of poison".  None of my family has experienced ANY problems related to such use.  I am eighty two years old and I would think that any bad effects would have occurred before now.  It is a great misstating of actual use facts to say that such treated lumber is dangerous.  Or perhaps that is why I have lived as long as I have.  Don't believe EVERYTHING that the organic people put out, some of it is fine, but a lot of it is what you can find walking in a cow pasture.

That's a bit like the people who say "I've lived to a hundred and smoked fifty cigarettes every day so it must be safe to smoke". At the very least the wood preservatives of forty years ago did horrible things to the microherd in their vicinity. The fact that you've survived it doesn't make it safe.

The more we learn the science of low level chemical interractions the more we find that many of the everyday garden behaviours of the past were unsafe. Like Gordon I'm old enough to remember when DDT et al were regarded as safe for home gardeners - though a mere chicken beside him - but we now know better - or at least I hope we do

kathryn
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