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Landscape timbers

If you are a good home gardener that wood is the best construction material for you. There are lots of occasions when landscape timbers are used in gardening projects. You may meet them in separated or raised beds, posts for decorative or protective fences, latticework, and boards for decks, containers, and walkways. Lumber must be treated much more carefully than concrete or plastic, so there is no wonder that landscape timbers used in an outdoor garden or backyard landscape must be naturally resistant to insect and fungal attack or at least must be treated to provide an extended service life. It was proved long, long ago that the safe application of treated lumber in the landscape makes good economic and environmental sense which directly results in the efficient use of harvested timber.

When selecting a wood for your landscape you may face several types to choose from. The choices are met regarding lumber products suitable for long outdoor use. Among them are lumber containing natural preservatives, lumber that was treated by the home gardener, pressure treated lumber, treated landscape timbers, and recycled products such as rail ties. Before purchasing lumber of such type try make sure that the product is safe for use in outdoor conditions.

And now let's take a closer look on landscape timbers. Under landscape timbers we usually understand lengths of timber (about 4x4 inches) and varying in length, which have been chemically treated to prevent rot, used in building raised beds, defining an area of the garden, and even building some garden furniture.

This product was specially developed for gardening. The other name for landscape timber is the treated timber. The manufacturers of today get timber out of the unused center of a log resulting from plywood manufacturing. After that this center gets flat and rounded on two sides. The next step to ideal landscape timbers is treating. The drawback here is that they are not pressure treated and therefore they do not conform to all the standards that are required for extended in-ground use. No doubt that such product will not contain a perfect quality stamp, however it will be soaked or dipped (it is another treatment form) with preservatives. But no matter how will you treat landscape timber it will always remain he wood, and therefore all handling precautions are absolutely the same as in case of pressure-treated products.

Unfortunately due to the high percentage of heartwood, the expected service life of this product is difficult to predict, but an estimated in-ground service life would be five to seven years for sure. Tests of untreated southern pine posts resulted in a service life of slightly more than three years.

If you will decide to decorate your garden with landscape timbers all by yourself you will certainly need the following set of tools: saw to cut timbers (it could be chain saw or large diameter circular saw), drill and screwdriver bit to attach angle braces, framing square and pencil to mark cutting line on timbers, sledge hammer for driving spikes through timbers, carpenter's level to level steps, and spade or shovel to dig into slope and backfill.