Re: Question about landscaping timbers
On Tue, 29 Jan 2002 20:52:30 -0500, Janet Wintermute
<jwintermute@erols.com> , late of Pablo Fanques Fair wrote:
>Vicki Spurling asked about the wisdom of using "landscape timbers" with
>which to let hubby build her raised beds.
>
>In January 1996, I had a professional landscape architectural firm build me
>a pair of fabulous raised beds, and they used CCA (an arsenic-based
>preservative formula)-treated lumber. This is said to be the big No No in
>terms of leaching chemicals into the soil touching the wood of the beds.
>
>I have indeed read some horror stories on the gardening newsgroups about
>people getting wildly distorted veggies and having their raised-bed soil
>tested and finding bad quantities of poisonous compounds in the soil.
I just read a news item that said that the EPA and the lumber
industry had agreed to find a less toxic substitute for CCA, and
that CCA would not be used in a couple of years.
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