Growing Vegetables in an old Copper Boiler

pprendeville

Does anyone know if it is unhealthy to grow vegetables in an old copper boiler. I'm going to cut it in half and mount it, fill it with soil and plant some vegetables in it. I've been doing up the back garden this past month and I'm recycling everything basically. Using old pallets and getting great use out of them for making raised beds, fencing. Even using the nails again. Very thrifty.

Basically, will the copper react with the soil and would it then be unhealthy to eat the vegetables out of it?

God bless,

Phil.

Slumlion

pprendeville wrote: »

Does anyone know if it is unhealthy to grow vegetables in an old copper boiler. I'm going to cut it in half and mount it, fill it with soil and plant some vegetables in it. I've been doing up the back garden this past month and I'm recycling everything basically. Using old pallets and getting great use out of them for making raised beds, fencing. Even using the nails again. Very thrifty.

Basically, will the copper react with the soil and would it then be unhealthy to eat the vegetables out of it?

God bless,

Phil.

You could make a nice few quid if you sold that copper to a scrap yard,I'd imagine it will react with the moisture in the ground and turn green due to oxidation.

Slumlion

If you did eat the vegetables you could
A)Suffer copper posioning
B)Turn into an incredible hulk

laugh

Considering you can kill trees by hammering copper into them this might be a bad move.

Osgoodisgood

Boiling coppers in the first place is iffy if you ask me

sculptor

been wondering about this myself, I have had a Fig tree growng in one for about 10 years and in the odd (very odd) year they ripen I've eaten them .
The organic regulations have restrictions about copper sulphide use though, very interesting :rolleyes: