Much of the garden furniture today is made of plastic rather than wood. If you are lucky enough to have a set of old-fashioned wicker or bent willow garden furniture, you can use this Beeswax Sealant Recipe for to keep it in top shape.
Yield: 1 12-ounce jar
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup beeswax
- 1/2 cup grapeseed oil
- 1/2 cup gum turpentine
Directions
- Make a double boiler using a tin can. Add the beeswax and grape seed oil to the can. Melt over medium heat. Remove the pan from the heat.
- Stir in the gum turpentine and continue stirring until a smooth paste forms.
- Pour into a wide mouth pint jar with a tight-fitting lid.
To use
- Apply this mixture with a soft cloth to the clean, dry surface of your wicker garden furniture. Be sure to get into the crevices between the wicker-work to form a protective seal.
- Allow the mixture to dry overnight. Reapply in 24 hours. Buff with a dry, lint-free cloth to remove any excess wax mixture.
The Beeswax Workshop by Chris Dalziel Lewis (Ulysses Press, 2016) transforms one of your hive’s most versatile products into non-toxic and useful household products.
5 Comments
How much beeswax for the fenceposts?
Good question! We are contacting the author to find out!
The recipe for sealing fence posts doesn’t have any beeswax listed in the ingredients. Also, the recipe lists four and a half cups of liquid ingredients, but the description says it only makes five ounces of the product. Assuming that you’re also adding a few ounces of beeswax at some point, that doesn’t seem to add up.
How much beeswax in the fence post recipe?
You don’t say how much beeswax to use in the fence post preservative?