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Shoutout to the retired guy in Flagstaff who let me poke around his 1970s raised beds
His beds were cedar 2x12s from a yard sale, still solid after 40 years with nothing but linseed oil, and now I'm staring at my own pressure treated pine build from 3 summers ago wondering if I picked the wrong wood, so what are you all actually building raised beds out of these days?
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matthew_reed507d ago
Linseed oil is good stuff but cedar in Flagstaff lasts partly because of that dry air, not just the wood. Wet climates will eat cedar a lot faster without some kind of finish touch up every few years. My uncle's cedar beds down in Oregon rotted through in about 12 years, so climate does a lot of the work.
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