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Re: building raised beds

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>Pressure-treated
>lumber is not known to leach its poisons into your soil


Actually, pressure treated wood does leach arsenic into the soil.  Organic 
Gardening magazine did an article on it in 1999, I think.  Playground equipment 
built with the stuff was leaching arsenic onto the ground and it was detected in 
the children's blood.

I personally don't think it's all that important to have wood that has been 
treated with nasty stuff just so it will last longer.  Who cares if it rots 
away?  Just replace it with some other found or recycled wood.  I can see the 
point if your building a house, but a garden?   Composting and recycling are the 
way of natural things....


Ann Stark


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