Treated Wood Garden Planters

Gardeners have used pressure treated wood for decades in raised beds and as posts but on december 31 2003 the environmental protection agency epa banned the sale of lumber treated with chromated copper arsenate cca for residential use.

Treated wood garden planters.

This wheel garden planter spans 32 inches wide but the space available for planting is much less than what you get from a typical square garden bed. Don t burn pressure treated wood. I d say stay away from treated wood in the garden and that. Concerns have focused on the leaching of arsenic from pressure treated wood.

Unfortunately commercial wood planter boxes are seldom treated with a protective coating to make it last even longer. A wooden planter is a great way of creating a bed to grow plants and vegetables in if you are short of space. With a few precautions. And as it s made of pressure treated timber it can be stained in any colour and won t rot.

Raised vegetable bed with treated wood. Wear gloves a dust mask and eye protection when handling or cutting wood. Up until 2003 the most common preservative used for pressure treated wood was chromated copper arsenate cca a compound using arsenic as its primary rot protectant. Wood that isn t pressure treated tends to rot fairly quickly in contact with the soil.

Wash your hands after working with treated wood. While these commercial planter boxes are often held together by glue which. Use wood rated for ground contact when necessary for the project. On the other hand it looks anything but typical and can make for a lovely and affordable addition to your backyard.

Your wooden planter can be adapted to fit any corner depending on your needs. You can make a wooden planter in a day using treated timber. Over years the industry in cooperation with government recommendations. In a 2014 study wood research scientists love gardner and morrell at oregon state university found that in growing radishes carrots and potatoes in a copper azole treated douglas fir planter the copper levels were not higher in roots or tubers of radishes carrots or potatoes compared to beds constructed from untreated wood.

In a 2014 study wood research scientists love gardner and morrell at oregon state university found that in growing radishes carrots and potatoes in a copper azole treated douglas fir planter the copper levels were not higher in roots or tubers of radishes carrots or potatoes compared to beds constructed from untreated wood. Joe mabel wikimedia commons there is a long standing controversy in the field of organic gardening. Don t use pressure treated wood as mulch. Can pressure treated wood be used as part of an organic vegetable garden.

Lamiot wikimedia commons pressured treated. Here s what i know.