Re: what do you make your raised beds from?
I have to agree with Margaret on the fir boards. My
earlier comment pertained to the fact that I had an
excess of treated ties that I used after treating them
with a seal coat and lining the inside. I also have
untreated fir framed beds that are going into their
6th season and show few signs of deteriating.
Good luck
Jim
--- Margaret Lauterbach <melauter@earthlink.net>
wrote:
> Hardware store people are full of pulp. I have fir
> (2X10) raised beds that
> I've had for years. The wood was never treated or
> painted, and I don't see
> any signs of decay. Last year we built several more
> raised beds of 2x10
> and 2X8 fir, all as they came from the lumberyard.
> Not pressure treated,
> no chemicals, nada.
>
> I lost my mobility a couple of years ago
> (amputation), and when I found out
> some people in the same boat were gardening from the
> seat of an electric
> scooter, I bought one and set out to convert my
> veggie garden to raised
> beds. My husband was not in shape to fill raised
> beds, so I hired a
> magician with a backhoe to scoop my garden soil into
> ridges, the base of
> each about 4 feet across, with a four foot wide path
> on each side. Then we
> hired a guy to build containment boxes out of the
> fir around each
> ridge. After that, even I, from the seat of the
> scooter, could rake soil
> down into the boxes. That's the easiest way to do
> it, and it didn't really
> cost all that much either. Margaret L
>
> >Hi everyone. I am new to this method of gardening
> and this list (a.k.a.
> >lurker). So far so good, this year. We are on the
> border between zone 4&5,
> >and so mostly just harvested radishes and lettuce
> at this point. I was
> >wondering what matierials people here have used to
> make their lead boxes.
> >Given that pressure treated wood is supposed to
> leak bad chemicals, I don't
> >want to use that. The people at the local hardware
> store say nothing else
> >will
> >last more than a year. I would love to make some
> raised boxes before the
> >summer ends, but don't know what to use. I would
> love any ideas. Thanks,
> >
> >Jeanie in Vermont
> >
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