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Hello all,
I have just built 3 1mx30cmx30cm containers fron tanalised decking boards (though the uprights are not tanalised). Then painted them with Wilko Timbercare on the outside (water based). (They look lovely
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I was planning to line them with plastic (from a new matress) but then someone suggested soft weed surpressing membrane (and bought me some!) and was very certain this was the best way (and said he'd spoken to 2 landscape gardeners and the garden centre man about it).
This seems odd to me, I thought plastic was needed to keep water in the compost and keep it off of the wood and to stop any leaching of chemicals from the tanalising etc.
Have I got this wrong? What shall I do?
The containers are intended to have a perennial planting of herbs and other bee attractors, maybe the occasional cabbage! but not for general cropping.
Thanks S
I have just built 3 1mx30cmx30cm containers fron tanalised decking boards (though the uprights are not tanalised). Then painted them with Wilko Timbercare on the outside (water based). (They look lovely
)I was planning to line them with plastic (from a new matress) but then someone suggested soft weed surpressing membrane (and bought me some!) and was very certain this was the best way (and said he'd spoken to 2 landscape gardeners and the garden centre man about it).
This seems odd to me, I thought plastic was needed to keep water in the compost and keep it off of the wood and to stop any leaching of chemicals from the tanalising etc.
Have I got this wrong? What shall I do?
The containers are intended to have a perennial planting of herbs and other bee attractors, maybe the occasional cabbage! but not for general cropping.
Thanks S
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