alright this is john kohler with growingyourgreens.com.i have another exciting episode for you. one of the questions i get the most is hey johnwhat did you treat your wood with and i used cedar and redwood to prevent the rot. that'ssomething that's natural that's not going to possibly cause problems with the soil oractually leeching into the soil then you eating the plants grown in there and then you'reconsuming that stuff. so for that reason i don't necessarily recommend standard paintsor even standard wood stains that are used for decks because the stuff can actually betoxic and contain something things that you wouldn't want to eat when you're growing yourplants in it, you may end up also consuming it.so at the time i did a lot of research, i
used a soy based stain. i don't think thestuff i used is available anymore. it did work well at the time and it appears to stillbe working alright, although it wasn't effective at preventing mold from growing. but it hasseemed to prevent the wood from deteriorating or rotting. so if i had to do it over, i mightuse a different product. but since that time, i've learned about anotherproduct that i'm going to share with you guys today that i did have in a past episode thati learned about the national hardware and garden show. what that stuff is, is this stuffright here. it's called the eco-wood treatment. it comes in two sizes. they have a small anda large. the small size here will cover one gallon and is about 150 square feet. thisis about 5 gallons worth and it covers approximately
750 square feet.you might be thinking hey john, how is that a gallon in there, and how's that 5 gallonsin there? it's very simply. these are actually concentrates so inside the package here whatyou're going to find is a little package of stuff. basically from what i was told theseare basically powdered up minerals and this is a family formula that's been used for over60 years to protect wood on docks and they got some hard environments in docks. literallythe wood on docks is getting wet all the time. so in a raised bed situation shouldn't bea problem. so these are just minerals in some formulation, they wouldn't disclose the actualingredients when i talked to them there but i feel that they're fairly safe, they're justsome powdered up stuff.
so how you use this stuff is actually youuse this and actually dilute it with water yourself. so what we're going to do todayis we're actually going to use two of these smaller sizes here. what we're going to dois mix it into a premeasured two gallons of water. so there's one packet that's for onegallon and then we're going to go ahead and use another small packet for a total of twogallons. they have nice reusable bags, so you could reuse these bags to store your seedsin. alright so that's dropped in there, next weneed to stir it up, so i got a handy dandy piece of branch here. alright we're brewingup the witches brew, actually the eco-wood treatment today. on the growing your greensshow. alright, we're getting some vortex action
here, who needs a blender when i got an air?alright man, i think that looks pretty cool. now this stuff does kind of look like a dirtyyellow/brown, kind of like pee color after you've eaten some strawberries maybe. butit looks like it's nice a stirred up. now there's a few ways you can apply the eco-woodtreatment. they say you can actually just use the paintbrush and paint it on, whichis probably not the most effective way. the next way they recommend is actually you coulduse some kind of sprayer, whether it's a backpack sprayer. this is the standard sprayer, you'dspray your compost tea on your leaves. so you'd just use a standard sprayer to sprayit on the wood being treated. or the best way that i'm going to do it today is do thesoak method.
now the soak method is especially importantwhen you're going to use it in raised beds because you want this protectant to seal andcoat every different possible surface. because guess what? the place you miss brushing orspraying on, whether it's the front side, the back side, or the cracks or the crevices,that's where the rot may occur. now this product is said to make your wood fungus and moldresistant and also protect your wood. one of these side benefits or maybe negative thingsmaybe depending on your views is that this will turn your wood a greyish color so that'slike that nice grayish weathered look if you want it. if you don't want that look thenyou might want to look for another product that is going to be different from this one.so i don't have any raised beds that i'm going
to be treating today. the raised beds behindme are actually made out of a plastic that i'm using here. but what we're going to dotoday is we're going to treat a planter, so whether you're going to grow in a little planter,you made yourself or whether you're going to treat your raised beds you should definitelyuse this product. now the planter i'm going to treat today is a special planter it's notany planter. the one area of a planter that will basically rot out first, always the bottom.right there. now why is the bottom always going to rot out first, because guess whatwhen you water, the water goes in the bottom, and not necessarily collects in the sidesto much and it rots the bottom organization of your pots out.this pot is a special pot, this is from susquehanna
garden concepts at sgardenconcept.com, madein the usa, made out of cedar wood here and the bottom is plastic so this is a very intelligentdesign. they also have some waist height raised bed kits which are really cool and other sizesavailable. i think even some of these guys might be available on amazon.com. the plasticis manufactured from 100% recycled materials. so definitely really cool. while the plasticwon't rot, the wood, although this is cedar, may still rot. so that's why we're going totreat it today. so whether you're treating your containers made out of wood, whetheryou're treating pine, cedar, cedar, redwood. it's always best to treat your wood becauseit'll delay the amount of time it does take before it does rot. everything will rot overtime, but this can help prevent that.
so i guess next because we got this mixturehere we're just going to go ahead and pour this into our cement mixing tub and this isgoing to work pretty good because we are, and look at that color on it man. it's a niceyellow kind of dark pee color actually. so those are all the minerals in there changingthe color of the water. and once again i said you could paint or spray it on, but in thiscase because this is a small container we're literally going to put it in here like this.check it out, the bottom is totally submerged. we're going to count to ten. one, two, three,four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten. hey that's my voice changing because i'm goingthrough puberty. then were just going to rotate a little bit and we're going to let this thatseep into this section. then we're going to
count to ten again and we're going to continueto rotate this and guess what as we continue to rotate around the wood treatment it willsoak in to each and every panel get between all those joints and everything and reallyprotect this wood. now once you're done treating it going totake this out. the color of this will change, it's a nice cedar looking wood, it's goingto turn into that graying look but don't be concerned, your wood is now protected in anon-toxic method using minerals. so one of the things i always look at before buyingany product or before showing it to you guys is i check the reviews, especially if i don'thave any experience with this product. this is the first time using this eco woodtreatment. i don't really know about it so
i had to take it at face value when the owneractually talking to me about this stuff and i gave him like twenty questions. i thinki was at least standing at his booth for like half hour forty five minute just nailing himwith all kinds of questions. because these are the things that i know you guys mightask me and i nailed them enough so that i'm definitely fairly convinced that this is afairly non-toxic product. plus also check the reviews before you buy anything. the internetis a the wealth of information and the reviews for the most part actually except for a fewwhich may have been a staged are all good on this product. so i think that's definitelya makes a high confidence with this. another thing is that this one is made incanada up in bc yo yo what's up all bcers
up there in british columbia. bc's great.of all the places i've been in canada, i like bc the most so far. no offense to you saskatchewansout there. but this is a eco-wood treatment you could learn more at their website, eco-woodtreatment.com.you probably can order it from them off their website but the other thing that's reallycool that this is also available on other online major retailers such as home depot.so yes this is also very available and also very easy to ship because you're not shippingliquids. just make sure you mix it up really good.wow, i can smell the cedar wood here just soaking up this water. so you know if youdo you want to do your raised bed boards which can be rather long what i would make it somekind a jig so i would make basically using
some wood or some scraps i'd make like a little,i'd get some plastic. some plastic sheeting and make a little trough than you know makea two edges or four edges and make like a long raised bed that you're going to basicallya putting the plastic sheeting so that you can dunk in long pieces of wood into this.so basically you're making like a little aquarium. and that way you'll be able to soak your woodthat you'll be the best protected to protect your wood against rot, mold, and funguses.so you know i don't know this is looks like it's working pretty good and only time willtell how the eco-wood treatment works for me. at this time i'm currently recommendingit because you know it seems like it's a non -toxic product, it's met my a rigorous questioningof the owner, and the reviews online say it's
great. so stay tuned for future episodes whereyou show you guys how this is looking, how it's working and any future information thati may have on this product. if you have use the eco-wood treatment hey post down belowor share your experiences down below with the eco-wood treatment if you do decide touse it. so once again my show is about giving you got option so you can grow food in a non-toxicenvironment. now you know my application for this is for gardening because gardening yougot the soil coming in with it, the water coming in contact with the wood, but thisis also used to like you know spray on wood houses to protect the outside, on docks, ondecks. this stuff has infinite never uses to protect your virgin untreated wood.it's been actually several days since i filmed
that episode to show you guys how to use theeco-wood treatment and now ii want to see the results. this is a standard of britishcolumbia red cedar wood. once again this is the susquehanna garden concepts containeronce again this one actually has the plastic bottom and we did not treat this one to showyou guys the difference. now you guys can see the difference in thetreated and untreated. here's the treated, here's the untreated. the treated actuallykind has like a grayish brown tinge actually oh and there's a moth. actually i like thisa lot actually, i think it looks really cool and as long as it works like it says it doesand it protects the wood from the inside out, because once again we did dunk this in there,i think this is an excellent way to preserve
your wood until i find something out that'smore natural and hopefully i'm going to trial this and see if my wood rots or not. so farso good but it hasn't even been that long. so hope you guys enjoy this episode to buythese eco-wood treatment is available at places like homedepot.com it and a post below thevideo to let me know if you try it and what you think of it. so hopefully you guys enjoythis episode learning more about a natural wood treatment to preserve the wood you usein your garden that's not going to affect or put chemicals into your food. once againmy name is john kohler with growingyourgreens.com. we'll see you next time and remember keepon growing.
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