[StBernard] Mulch

[Westley Annis]

I saw a report about this while in Houston.  The news channel interviewed a
Home Depot employee that said their mulch is heated to too high temperature
for termites to survive.  He said that if you are still worried, read the
bag to see where the mulch came from.
 
The news station tried to talk to the originator of the information, but was
unable to get a response.
 
Cindy

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A little something you should be aware of..... (from the Landscape
Architects of America)

 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 other lawn
outlets at dirt cheap prices with one HUGE potential problem  Formosan
Termites ! These bags of mulch could contain eggs and the termites
themselves, as 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 face the true
dilemma of transporting a problem to all parts of the country that we have
endured in New Orleans for years. 
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.