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Tall_Kayak_Guy t1_jdmd658 wrote

They grow pretty slow. Same height since I first saw them in 1974. Not enough fertilizer.

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oxysept11 t1_jdmjevn wrote

There farmed with organic methods

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Tall_Kayak_Guy t1_jdmkd85 wrote

and slathered in rot-preventing chemicals, like Creosote

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oxysept11 t1_jdn0j9g wrote

I love the smell of Creosote - but hated painting fences with it as a kid.

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Tall_Kayak_Guy t1_jdndwwv wrote

Same. My dad had my brother and I seal the stockade fence ever few years. That was way before they found out it's linked to cancer (just like everything else!).

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Oxysept1 t1_jdnhb8f wrote

Did you know studies have found that living will actually kill you !!!

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Tall_Kayak_Guy t1_jdns6r4 wrote

Like George Carlin said "The surgeon general warned today that saliva causes stomach cancer. But apparently only when swallowed in small amounts over a long period of time."

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