Q: JLB asks: I am planning on using pressure-treated landscape timbers for a raised vegetable garden. Others have told me that I need to be concerned about the chemicals that may leach out and affect ...

Pressure-treated wood has become a common material and is found in some form on three-quarters of our properties. It may be in a desk, a chair or table, or the foundation of the home. Many people use ...

Q. I would like to build a raised vegetable bed, but I have read that pressure-treated landscape timbers contain arsenic, which leaches into the soil and therefore into the vegetables. Do you know of ...