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Re: Pressure Treated Wood & RR ties

Square Foot Gardening List - http://www.flinet.com/~gallus/sqft.html

Yes, this is an excellent article...

Another thing to consider is that the manufacture and distribution of CCA
lumber has caused and will inevitably continue to cause pollution effects
outside the realm of primary consumerdom....several Superfund sites are CCA
related...

Pallet wood is available free for the hauling and deconstruction, many
places, and the other woods suggested by this article are good, too....

Frank---Abe Lincoln might have split rails to make his raised beds for
square foot gardening, if we could send Mel's book to him via a time
machine....:-)
-----Original Message-----
From: JJLipe@aol.com <JJLipe@aol.com>
To: sqft@listbot.com <sqft@listbot.com>
Date: Friday, May 14, 1999 10:49 PM
Subject: Re: Pressure Treated Wood & RR ties


>Square Foot Gardening List - http://www.flinet.com/~gallus/sqft.html
>
>n a message dated 5/13/99, kkiernan@home.com writes:
>
><< Does anyone know how far away from the source pressure treated wood
> leaches arsenic?  Is it only a problem if you're growing veggies in the
> beds?  Does pressure treated wood harm earthworms or good soil bacteria,
> etc?  Any info would be greatly appreciated, as I don't want to cause a
> problem in my yard, but then again, I don't want to have to pay someone
> to replace the borders again in 7 years.
>  >>
>
>Hi Kim,
>
>There's a very good article on pressure treated wood on the Kitchen
Gardener
>website that you might want to check out...hope it will help you make your
>decision.
>
>www.taunton.com/kg/features/techniques/wood/1.htm
>
>BTW, I found this link on Jan France's website...excellent!  If you haven't
>done so, check it out.  Great job, Jan!
>
>Juliana
>Zone 8
>new SFG'er...and very excited!!  Thanks to everyone for all the great info!
>
>
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