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the chicken coop

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I'd say test it, but be prepared to use it! If the boards you dismantled 
were greenish cast, then some form of pena-treat was probably used. (In 
1962 my Dad built a corral out of the things, using creosote posts (rail 
road ties) for fence posts. It has a green powder on it, but it's still 
standing! And very little of the boards have rotten, so even if way back 
when, some kind of chem lumber was used, by now, the half-life will have 
been negligible. (Martha's theory, anyhow). BUT, also, if the chickens were 
in it that far back, ditto any food value / benefits from their manure 
would be left in the soil itself.
Besides testing for chemicals (which could get expensive,) try growing 
something or other in that soil. something that you might want for 
flowering purposes and not an edible. (The NPK standard tests aren't going 
to show you the chemicals that went into making those numbers.)
Did it have earthworms and other insect life in it? They do a good job of 
filtering the soil, too.
martha


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