Pressure Treated Wood Garden Borders

Landscape timber edging is easy to install and creates an attractive natural looking frame for a flower border or perennial flower bed.
Pressure treated wood garden borders. Thanks for discussing the different options for treated wood when it comes to landscaping. Wood edging can enhance your landscape and keep the soil and mulch inside your garden bed. Gardeners have used pressure treated wood for decades in raised beds and as posts but on december 31 2003 the environmental protection agency epa banned the sale of lumber treated with chromated copper arsenate cca for residential use. Is pressure treated lumber safe for a garden.
Let s build a simple garden edging. Since i wanted to use this type of wood for a retaining wall and not a vegetable garden it isn t the main concern. Infusing the wood with these chemicals allowed it to keep its good condition for a number of years making it the ideal choice for landscaping playgrounds and it seemed garden edging. In the 20th century and into the 21st wood was treated by a chemical mix of arsenic chromium and copper.
It s much more substantial and attractive than galvanized metal edging and it will hold up better than plastic. The staggered height of a half log design gives a natural looking border. Something that anybody can do and have great results and at the same time time is different and unique from all the ston. You can also use it to line areas of grass.