Mulch ado about termites.....thanks Joan
> Subject: Mulch
> Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2006 09:19:42 -0600
> Thread-Topic: Mulch
>
>
> 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 and Lowes at dirt
>cheap prices with one huge problem; 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 badly 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 to
avoid
>cheap mulch and know were it came from.