I rescued the pictures raised
garden bed from a family members trash pile. It was from a kit to build your own and it’s cedar
wood. I know it was spray painted on the outside, which is a bummer but I’m hoping to still grow food in it.
It is a little rickety and had fallen after heavy rains saturated the existing soil inside.
The black plasticky liner was thrown away. I was thinking of lining it with something natural as it has a gap on the bottom and holes drilled and I don’t want to lose soil onto the cement.
I looked
online at options like burlap, canvas, and coconut coir. I thought about using an old organic cotton sheet that I have that is degrading but I’m still enjoying it as a sheet… yesterday, I bought a canvas drop cloth at Lowe’s, made in Pakistan. (I’m assuming it is 100% cotton?) It seemed like a better option than the made in China burlap and the black landscape cloth.
Should I have any major concerns with lining my garden bed with canvas if I want to grow organic edibles in it?
(I also bought some galvanized hardware to install on the bottom to hold the pieces together better.)