It is food safe once cured. Did you give the planks some time to let the oil cure?
hatchjon12
It’s not going to be in your food so don’t worry about it.
SageIrisRose
Oh Lordy thats cute!!
Its gonna be fine. Enjoy it.
Artesana03
No sé si será tóxico,pero si tienes dudas , coloca cartones entre la madera y el sustrato…
Steiney1
It might matter on a cutting board, but not your garden bed boards.
Responsible-Law1701
Lole your water solution
cheerycherie
You’re 100000% fine. There’s no need to tear anything up or redo a thing, by the time anything “leeches” to your plants, they’ve been curing in the sun for days,
berninicaco3
Just leave it. You’re over thinking it.
Boiled linseed oil has trace amounts of cobalt drier in it. NOT enough that it will leach into your growing food and affect you.
RotoruaFun
Contact the manufacturer of the boiled linseed oil for safety information. Since boiled linseed has non-food safe additives, I would steer clear. Better safe than sorry where health is concerned.
“Linseed oil is an extract of flax seed that can be used to protect a natural wood product from decay. It is important to recognize that raw linseed oil differs from boiled linseed oil. Boiled linseed oil is a mixture of raw linseed oil and synthetic solvents that may not be permitted for use in organic systems.”
Luzi1
I’ve never seen a strawberry plant with pink flowers. Pretty!
lindemer
Your garden looks lovely! 😍 You’re absolutely 1000% fine. I also always use boiled linseed oil, I think it’s the best option to protect wood
Lansan
All my raised beds are brished with linseed oil. It’s grand. Your plants won’t take it in. Yiu’re fertilising your plants with cow or chicken shit pellets and are worried about linseed oil, soaked into the wood on the edge? 😂
SpinachSpinosaurus
if you can eat aspergus that grows below an european yew, you can eat the stuff from that garden.
Do you actually realize what “food safe” means? it means, not put it on a cutting board or prepare (!) food with items that came into contact with, that can cause you harm when you repeatedly ingest it, not “it’s so toxic, a minimal amount of it, that chips off into the soil, and then gets diluted with the rain water, and that even smaller amount that gets absorbed by the plant and potential ends up in even smaller amount into you strawberry, does harm to you.” no, OP, no. if THAT would mean “not food safe”, it would mean it would be worse than cyankali. you would die just by smelling it. like, instant drop to your grave.
No need to ingest ist. you wouldn’t been even **able** to get your hands on it.
So no worries. You would have to eat A LOT, and I mean like A TON a week of that garden to just have a noticable risk to get a little bit sick. You’re gonna be fine.
Rul1n
I would always try use HDPE plastic between wood and soil. Maybe you could cut some plates and slide them in on the sides? It also helps to keep the wood dry, especially when using bubble wrap made out of hdpe (not PP) example pic: [https://www.bloomling.com/windhager/bubble-wrap-mounting-nails-set](https://www.bloomling.com/windhager/bubble-wrap-mounting-nails-set)
Gorilla_Pie
Not one to lose sleep over – lovely beds too!
miniocz
What do you mean not food safe? What is in it?
Pandaro81
But it is good for cleaning your masterwork or magical axe, once per week.
d_smogh
It is considered not safe when it comes in direct contact with food. Don’t worry about it. One person I know used old brake fluid oil.
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PortCityBlitz
Another vote for “don’t worry about it; you did great!” This is a good looking setup that will last for years. You’ll be fine and so will your plants and the fruit they produce.
FurryPotatoSquad
Thanks all, I’ll just leave it. The mere thought of taking it all out tires me anyway when there’s more to do lol.
Aggravating-Sugar261
It is a darling set
therealharambe420
Well good thing the boards aren’t touching food.
Their touching dirt
Which is touching roots
Which is touching the plant
Which is touching the food.
I wouldn’t worry about it.
giantoreocookie
You already have answers to your question but I just wanted to chime in and say how beautiful your garden is!
jpttpj
Not gonna matter, just like pt boards are ok.
__slamallama__
Know what else isn’t food safe? Dirt
JacksonRidge142
What’s the recommended oil to use on something like a cedar plant bed?
thesparedones
I wouldn’t eat off it but I might use that oil next time myself looks good 👍
izza123
I doubt many planters are food safe
OpenTechie
So happy to see another with ollas!
Traditional_Front637
Wait huh? Linseed oil is one of the recommended uses for wooden raised garden beds when growing food?
guttanzer
There is boiled linseed oil and “boiled” linseed oil. The former is actually boiled to make it set faster. The latter has heavy metal additives that catalyze the reaction. You might check the can or web search to see which kind you used.
In either case the oil irreversibly cures into a hard resin in a matter of days or weeks. When you can’t smell it anymore the cross linking is complete. That resin isn’t going anywhere. If it was real boiled linseed oil you have no problems. If it was the industrial stuff the heavy metals might leech into your soil. But soil naturally contains trace heavy metals already, so I suspect the plants will deal with it just fine.
Bottom line – don’t eat large quantities of the soil.
StillCopper
It’s like the rest of the scientific community. Feed a mouse a gallon of linseed oil and it kills him We don’t know why but it did. That’s pretty much the way the test everything. Not real world usage. You shouldn’t have any problem at all as everybody’s used everything you can imagine on their raised beds for years
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It is food safe once cured. Did you give the planks some time to let the oil cure?
It’s not going to be in your food so don’t worry about it.
Oh Lordy thats cute!!
Its gonna be fine. Enjoy it.
No sé si será tóxico,pero si tienes dudas , coloca cartones entre la madera y el sustrato…
It might matter on a cutting board, but not your garden bed boards.
Lole your water solution
You’re 100000% fine. There’s no need to tear anything up or redo a thing, by the time anything “leeches” to your plants, they’ve been curing in the sun for days,
Just leave it. You’re over thinking it.
Boiled linseed oil has trace amounts of cobalt drier in it. NOT enough that it will leach into your growing food and affect you.
Contact the manufacturer of the boiled linseed oil for safety information. Since boiled linseed has non-food safe additives, I would steer clear. Better safe than sorry where health is concerned.
[Information for you.](https://ask2.extension.org/kb/faq.php?id=623983) Advice from the University of Georgia re: Raised Bed Materials.
“Linseed oil is an extract of flax seed that can be used to protect a natural wood product from decay. It is important to recognize that raw linseed oil differs from boiled linseed oil. Boiled linseed oil is a mixture of raw linseed oil and synthetic solvents that may not be permitted for use in organic systems.”
I’ve never seen a strawberry plant with pink flowers. Pretty!
Your garden looks lovely! 😍
You’re absolutely 1000% fine. I also always use boiled linseed oil, I think it’s the best option to protect wood
All my raised beds are brished with linseed oil. It’s grand.
Your plants won’t take it in. Yiu’re fertilising your plants with cow or chicken shit pellets and are worried about linseed oil, soaked into the wood on the edge? 😂
if you can eat aspergus that grows below an european yew, you can eat the stuff from that garden.
Do you actually realize what “food safe” means? it means, not put it on a cutting board or prepare (!) food with items that came into contact with, that can cause you harm when you repeatedly ingest it, not “it’s so toxic, a minimal amount of it, that chips off into the soil, and then gets diluted with the rain water, and that even smaller amount that gets absorbed by the plant and potential ends up in even smaller amount into you strawberry, does harm to you.” no, OP, no. if THAT would mean “not food safe”, it would mean it would be worse than cyankali. you would die just by smelling it. like, instant drop to your grave.
No need to ingest ist. you wouldn’t been even **able** to get your hands on it.
So no worries. You would have to eat A LOT, and I mean like A TON a week of that garden to just have a noticable risk to get a little bit sick. You’re gonna be fine.
I would always try use HDPE plastic between wood and soil. Maybe you could cut some plates and slide them in on the sides? It also helps to keep the wood dry, especially when using bubble wrap made out of hdpe (not PP) example pic: [https://www.bloomling.com/windhager/bubble-wrap-mounting-nails-set](https://www.bloomling.com/windhager/bubble-wrap-mounting-nails-set)
Not one to lose sleep over – lovely beds too!
What do you mean not food safe? What is in it?
But it is good for cleaning your masterwork or magical axe, once per week.
It is considered not safe when it comes in direct contact with food. Don’t worry about it. One person I know used old brake fluid oil.
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Another vote for “don’t worry about it; you did great!” This is a good looking setup that will last for years. You’ll be fine and so will your plants and the fruit they produce.
Thanks all, I’ll just leave it. The mere thought of taking it all out tires me anyway when there’s more to do lol.
It is a darling set
Well good thing the boards aren’t touching food.
Their touching dirt
Which is touching roots
Which is touching the plant
Which is touching the food.
I wouldn’t worry about it.
You already have answers to your question but I just wanted to chime in and say how beautiful your garden is!
Not gonna matter, just like pt boards are ok.
Know what else isn’t food safe? Dirt
What’s the recommended oil to use on something like a cedar plant bed?
I wouldn’t eat off it but I might use that oil next time myself looks good 👍
I doubt many planters are food safe
So happy to see another with ollas!
Wait huh? Linseed oil is one of the recommended uses for wooden raised garden beds when growing food?
There is boiled linseed oil and “boiled” linseed oil. The former is actually boiled to make it set faster. The latter has heavy metal additives that catalyze the reaction. You might check the can or web search to see which kind you used.
In either case the oil irreversibly cures into a hard resin in a matter of days or weeks. When you can’t smell it anymore the cross linking is complete. That resin isn’t going anywhere. If it was real boiled linseed oil you have no problems. If it was the industrial stuff the heavy metals might leech into your soil. But soil naturally contains trace heavy metals already, so I suspect the plants will deal with it just fine.
Bottom line – don’t eat large quantities of the soil.
It’s like the rest of the scientific community. Feed a mouse a gallon of linseed oil and it kills him We don’t know why but it did. That’s pretty much the way the test everything. Not real world usage. You shouldn’t have any problem at all as everybody’s used everything you can imagine on their raised beds for years