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[Douglas Woodard <dwoodard@becon.org>]

Red cedar is well liked for rot resistant posts in southern Ontario, but 
it grows slowly.

Doug Woodard
St. Catharines, Ontario


tanis cuff wrote:
>  
> I have many years of using & observing black-locust tree wood for in-ground use.  Trunks (even when split) for posts last longer than any other wood here.  But small trunks or saplings, and stake diameter branches, rot faster than you'd think a rot-resistant wood should.  But the cut plants regrow so fast, you just replace the stakes.  Zero toxicity as far as I know, except avoid the thorns in the growing season.  If labor is a major issue, know purchased treated posts may last longer than small diameter locust.
>  
> tc, sWI, where black locust grows better than anything else