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  • From: Charles Paradise <machelp@attglobal.net>
  • To: nafex@yahoogroups.com
  • Subject: Re: [nafex] Fertilizer - Dumb Question
  • Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2002 00:10:48 -0500

Ginda is right. Lawsuits said children got slivers of wood, go poisoned by
the slivers. Around 1986, the amount of arsenic in new pressure treated
lumber was reduced to one-third of what it was. The pressure treated wood
sold today is not as strong as that sold more than 15 years ago.
Charles Paradise
65 Adin Drive
Concord MA 01742-3505

Ginda Fisher wrote:

> Pressure treated lumber is treated with arsenic, and is quite toxic. I
> would not want to grow foodcrops next to it. (I didn't use it for my
> sandbox, either. I figured the kids would outgrow the sandbox before
> the untreated lumber rotted away, and that's looking more and more
> likely.) It may be that arsenic doesn't move very efficiently from the
> wood to the soil, but it still seems like a bad idea. It might actually
> be worse with old wood, if the wood is breaking down and animals,
> insects, and worms might transport the crumbling wood throughout the
> soil.
>
> Ginda Fisher
>
> On Wednesday, April 10, 2002, at 05:37 PM, Sam Franc wrote:
>
> > I don't know the chemistry of it but I would not be concerned about
> > uptake from that wood.
> > Tests that I have seen have shown that the uptake from even new treated
> > lumber is very minimal.
> > After next year your ? will be moot.
> > You will not be able to buy treated lumber any more.
> > The feds have struck again.
> > We are all wondering what the construction industry is going to do for
> > plate stock then.
> > There is not enough redwood or cedar on the market or in the woods to
> > make up the difference.
> > Sam
> >
> > Thomas Olenio wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> This may sound like a ddumb question, but here goes...
> >>
> >> If you have 1 gallon of 20-20-20 liquid fertilizer and 1 more gallon of
> >> water, do you then have 2 gallons of 10-10-10?
> >>
> >> Second question...
> >>
> >> How safe would it be to construct a raised bed from used, very old,
> >> pressure treated lumber? I have some pressure treated lumber that is
> >> part
> >> of a sandbox that was outgrown, and left if the weather. Does not look
> >> very pressure treated anymore. Opinions?
> >>
> >> Would linging the inside with plastic be sufficient (soil never touched
> >> old wood)?
> >>
> >> Later,
> >> Tom
> >>
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