Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat Gardeners report - 2011
From: GUEST
Date: 20 May 11 - 01:39 PM

Question???

Looks as if we're are heading toward building box beds for growing our veggies... I know that railroad ties don't have anything poisonous in them but they are clunky and not what we want... I'd love to use pressure treated but have heard it has arsenic in it??? Anyone know for sure???

Other ideas???

B~


ANSWER: Yes on both. I think it is more important to avoid the green colored treated lumber than the railraod ties. Treated lumber has arsenic.

Redwood and cedar are used on the West Coast but are not available everywhere.