Raised Bed - Pressure treated timber?

[teakdesk]

Hi

That's because in the spirit of growing your own, people want to be as organic as possible. I certainly do.

But surely a forest a few million years ago would have been organic so when the trees fall down and more trees fall on top and even more trees fall on top it will still be organic and after a few million years of lying there under the weight of all the trees and other stuff it will still be organic and even when it has turned into a black gloop it will still be organic so when the constituents of the gloop are separated out into protective chemicals it will still be organic??

IE oil is only old trees which makes it organic so the protective chemicals made from it must also be organic ?

Or do organic trees have a "use by" date that makes them non-organic ?




I've never understood why oil made from trees is abhorred by some people who then extol the virtues of oil made from olives that grow on those trees!!!!

[chris]

It's not so much the process, it's the man-made process too. i.e. what else synthetic have we added to "oil", or tanalising solution, weed killers that are made by man-made chemicals, yada yada.... I'd have thought anyway. But I do know what you mean, I ponder it myself often too. I also think there's different definitions of 'organic' too.. organic as in carbon based... or organic as in supermarket bought organic soup, where by the potatoes may have been from a farm which applied for organically grown labels due to it's growing practices?