Treated Wood Garden Planters

On the other hand it looks anything but typical and can make for a lovely and affordable addition to your backyard.

Treated wood garden planters.

Wash your hands after working with treated wood. 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. Your wooden planter can be adapted to fit any corner depending on your needs. Over years the industry in cooperation with government recommendations.

Concerns have focused on the leaching of arsenic from pressure treated wood. You can make a wooden planter in a day using treated timber. So depending on the wood treatment it s either unsafe to grow food in treated wood planters or the safety has not been determined. Use wood rated for ground contact when necessary for the project.

Unfortunately commercial wood planter boxes are seldom treated with a protective coating to make it last even longer. 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. 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. Don t burn pressure treated wood.

Wood that isn t pressure treated tends to rot fairly quickly in contact with the soil. Here s what i know. Lamiot wikimedia commons pressured treated. A wooden planter is a great way of creating a bed to grow plants and vegetables in if you are short of space.

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. Yes the new pressure treated wood is safe for use for raised garden frames. With a few precautions. Don t use pressure treated wood as mulch.

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. Wear gloves a dust mask and eye protection when handling or cutting wood. Dispose of sawdust and waste according to local regulations. Can pressure treated wood be used as part of an organic vegetable garden.

I d say stay away from treated wood in the garden and that. And as it s made of pressure treated timber it can be stained in any colour and won t rot.