/diy/ - Do It Yourself

I'm making raised beds, 3'x3'x18". I'm using 1 1/2 inch thick wood I sourced from scrap runs. Some of it has cool patterns painted on it, some has plain white paint, some are just weathered. Wife loves how the first one looks.

I'll post a better pic.. picrel is just some shabby chic shit, but it's close enough for now.

My question is - can I leave the paint on? One has what i think is old powdered spar urethane on. Another just has white paint slathered on.

I was going to check and confirm its not lead paint, and I'm going to sand the top layer of urethane off, just because it sketches me out a bit.

Does it really matter? Is the paint bad? Can I repaint them? I'd like to protect the wood a bit, but also don't want to put any toxic shit into my wife's organic as fuck garden beds.