Healthy soil and sustainable growing

["Norma Sutton" <sweetspringfarm@gmail.com>]

Unless I've forgotten something somewhere . . . The chared surface of wood and the black crispy stuff that cakes up on your wood stove is a type of creosote.

Norma

 

On 2/18/07, Mark Nagel <activism98201@verizon.net> wrote:

I had heard/read somewhere, pertaining to fence posts I believe, that if you char wood that's going to be in contact with soil that it doesn't rot (or rot as fast).  I'd be interested in hearing whether this has any validity.


-Mark Nagel
Everett, WA

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From: yarrow@sfo.com

Another alternative is old (recycled) wood, rather than wood treated
with arsenates. See   http://attra.ncat.org/attra-pub/lumber.html
which also has links to other resources, such as the longevity of
different species of wood. It also has a recipe for a wood
preservative you can make.

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