Painting raised beds

[caseylee]

Hello there
My friend has managed to make me some beautiful rasied beds from a old chest and some pallets, but he says to protect it from the wather I need to paint it, any ideas

[caseylee]

[springbok]

You can buy non toxic paint.  Not sure if that will work, but I bought non toxic paints   when I painted items for my sons nursery.  It was similar to gloss, but would not harm him or the environment.

Worth looking into though :D

[caseylee]

i might have a look for that, my husband has wood paint that is suppossed to be non toxic so not sure what to do, surely the beds would  be ok without painting them

[grawrc]

You'll need to use paint suitable for outdoors like Cuprinol, Sadolin, Ronseal - toxicity isn't really the issue but stopping potential rot. It's wood preservative rather than funky coloured paint??