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Re: building raised beds

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At 01:59 PM 4/12/00 +0000, you wrote:
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>>Pressure-treated
>>lumber is not known to leach its poisons into your soil
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>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....
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  This wood really does rot even though it has been "pressure treated". I also
found out that the wood they sell in Florida is pressure treated because of 
the threat of rotting and bug infestation. I guess you can cut down your own
trees if you have them and make your own wood that is not treated :)
Also, although I have not seen it, I don't think redwood is treated, but it
is very expensive. It will probably never rot though.

   Susan S. in zone 9

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