Wood preservatives
Do all wood preservatives damage plants?
And what about (oil) paint? The "expert" at my local Builders' Provider asserts that all preservatives are bad for plants ... -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland |
Wood preservatives
Timothy Murphy wrote:
Do all wood preservatives damage plants? And what about (oil) paint? When properly dry and hardened they shouldn't do any harm, especially modern ones, which have to be formulated so that teething babies aren't harmed by noshing them. The "expert" at my local Builders' Provider asserts that all preservatives are bad for plants ... I'd guess that your 'expert' is mostly right, so if you are using (say) tanalised wood, or anything that's creosoted or tarred, put a layer of black polythene (builders' membrane, not dustbin bags!) between the wood and the timber. -- Rusty |
Wood preservatives
On Sun, 24 Oct 2010 14:47:04 +0100, Timothy Murphy
wrote: Do all wood preservatives damage plants? And what about (oil) paint? The "expert" at my local Builders' Provider asserts that all preservatives are bad for plants ... I used to use Cuprinol water-based products both on my own fences and my parents' and used a sprayer to apply them (a proper mains one, not the battery operated ones you can get now which, in my opinion, are rubbish). Invariably plants got sprayed, in some cases fairly heavily, but never seemed to suffer as a result. Having replaced my fences with heavier, pressure treated ones, I now use an oil-based treatment every 4 years - again sprayed on but during the winter. Herbaceous borders simply get covered with a sheet of polythene and shrubs get wrapped as I have found that the oil based stuff can damage them. |
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