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aquilegia

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Re: wood for raised beds
« Reply #20 on: February 12, 2004, 14:08:54 »
Ross - I like your theory there. I think I'll stick with that one. I hate the idea of having to throw away all the old decking and all the compost. Much prefer to live in ignorance!
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Re: wood for raised beds
« Reply #21 on: February 12, 2004, 15:13:49 »
What I want to know is, why were young goats playing on the equipment.huh?!!  
We shall all have to grow our veges well away from our edges, I can't face dismantling my beds!!  And I agree with Ross!
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Re: wood for raised beds
« Reply #22 on: February 15, 2004, 13:24:34 »
I've handled a lot of tanalised wood in the past and never suffered any ill effects. Often cut it up without protection too. Again no ill effects.

I have such timber in my plottie for raised bed sides, this has been additionaly treated with modern wood stain to improve the appearance and extend the life of the wood. This may help in sealing in any nasties in the wood.

As to life expectancy of such wood it is not all its cracked up to be. I have had some treated and stained trellis panels begin to decay with in 6 or 7 years. All depends on the quality of the wood of course, these were cheap 'off the peg' panels from a garden centre.  This of course is better life expectancy than untreated timber.
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Re: wood for raised beds
« Reply #23 on: February 16, 2004, 22:57:45 »
so is the general gist that treated wood is not ideal but we've all been using it and no-one has died of arsenic poisoning due to your lettuces yet?

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Re: wood for raised beds
« Reply #24 on: February 17, 2004, 12:40:00 »
some enterprising chap should make plastic ones
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Re: wood for raised beds
« Reply #25 on: February 17, 2004, 13:02:18 »
Fingle I have seen slot-together plastic ones in gardening catalogues but they are prohibitively expensive!

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Re: wood for raised beds
« Reply #26 on: February 17, 2004, 13:28:41 »
I have just built a raised bed in my garden out of old bricks -had about 100 going spare which build a nice size bed 4 bricks high - haven't mortered them together, which should be fine as I don't have kids to kick a football at it!

I estimate to make a 6 ' x 3' bed (4 bricks high) you'd need about 120 bricks. You can get the cheapest bricks at 20p each, so about £25. Not too bad considering that you'd pay about £15 at B&Q prices to do this with gravel boards. Just means transporting a lot of bricks! Maybe an old reclamation yard would have them cheaper?
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Re: wood for raised beds
« Reply #27 on: February 17, 2004, 13:53:17 »
There HAS to be something else......I will put my thinking hat on

Bricks sound nice tho
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