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Re: Painting raised beds?

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Mark Stonich said:

>We are starting out with 4 - 3'x4' boxes.  We'll be using new fir 2x8s, so
>we'd like to help them last.
>
>My neighbor used non-treated fir for her raised boxes. She painted them,
>inside and out, with what she calls "Environmentally safe paint" and they
>still look like new after several seasons. However, the place she got the
>paint has closed and she doesn't remember what the paint was called.

My husband just constructed some raised beds last weekend. He used cedar, 
and then coated them on all sides with several coats of a mixture of 
linseed oil and mineral spirits (50/50 proportion). They look GREAT, 
almost like fine furniture. We'll see how they hold up in the garden. 
Linseed oil is a product of the flax plant, so it's safe. The mineral 
spirits are necessary for making the linseed oil spreadable, and I 
believe that they eventually evaporate. So this should be a safe coating 
for the wood.

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