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Mulching the garden, Is now the Time?

March 8, 2006

If you use mulch around your house be very careful about buying mulch this year.

After the hurricane in New Orleans many trees were blown over. These trees were then turned into mulch and the state is trying to get rid of tons and tons of this mulch to any state or company who will come and haul it away. So it will be showing up in Home Depot, Lowes and Wal-Mart at dirt cheap prices with one huge problem.

Formosan Subterranean termites were introduced into the greater New Orleans area, as well as several other coastal towns, after World War II. By the time they were identified in 1966, they had already become well established in areas throughout New Orleans and Lake Charles. Since then the termites have had an additional 30 years to grow and spread.
Besides attacking our homes and businesses, Formosan subterranean termites are destroying trees.

Formosan termites will be the bonus in many of those bags. New Orleans is one of the few areas in the country were the Formosan Termites has gotten a strong hold and most of the trees blown down were already infested with those termites.

Now we may have the worst case of transporting a problem to all parts of the country that we have ever had. These termites can eat a house in no time at all and we have no good control against them, so tell your friends that own homes, and those that hope to, to avoid cheap mulch and know were it came from.

Perhaps it is already too late.

For more information, LSU Ag Center

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