can i use treated lumber for raised garden beds
A: The safety of pressure treated lumber for raised bed gardens has been examined by several researchers. From what I've seen, the consensus is that the chemicals do leach out of the wood into the soil and are uptaken by the plants in very small amounts.f course, the primary concern with using pressure treated wood in raised-bed gardens has been with the arsenic in CCA- (chromated copper arsenate) treated wood.