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that is the stupidest thing i have ever heard of in my life. I'm guessing it doesn't retain any water or break down into organic matter for the soil. Hey honey, lets go chop up those old tires and throw them in the yard since the garbage man won't take them. Stupid...i guess i like the red stuff more than that
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kubotachick: okay, now tell us how you REALLY feel---and don't hold back now! Seriously though, no they don't break down (that is their selling point) so you don't have to pay every season to redo them.
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but yeah, whats the difference between that and throwing some old newpapers down..actually that would be more benificial to the plant. I guess it would be good for large commercial accounts, but not for the regular around the house...i wouldn't think. Those big mulch blowers are really the way to go, cuts time incredibly
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kabotackick: If you think about it, at least around here, people use small stone/decorative rock in place of mulch. I get a lot of calls from homeowners who hate it after they put it down and want me to remove it because it is so hard to keep the weeds out and keep it looking nice. Some even use a type of stone that actually floats but looks like a smooth walnut shell--not good when the landscaping beds overflow with rain or during high winds! They tell me their neighbors get a little ticked to find the stuff all over their yards. Speaking of mulch blowers--Home Depot contracts someone to mulch their traffic islands---it looks like somebody chewed it all up and spit it out----hey! just like your idea of old newspapers!
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yeah, i hear ya bro...or those cocoa shells, those stupid things are terrible. You cannot do anything around them. I guess these rubber dingies aren't so bad. And those rocks are terrible, and if you ever have to match up old stones with new stones in new beds its almost impossible.
No harm no foul.
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I sell a few hundred yards of a variety of mulch every year. I lease a 10 acre parcel of land just to store the stuff. I buy it from Maine & Canada via tractor trailer with a walking floor. The area I store my Red cedar is some what close to wetlands. Well, the town found out I was storing it there & tested it. I was also required during this to get the dye ingredients from the supplier. What all this discover was that the dye is food dye! So harmless it couldn't even hurt an earthworm!
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I am personally done with mulch. Every year I would put down 5-6 yards of mulch to refresh the beds or build some old beds up. Last year, I removed all the mulch, added weed cloth and then stone. It was the best thing I ever did. The beds look great and no mulching this spring. The mulch around the pool beds was nothing but problems and all the concret was getting stained from the mulch.
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Realizing this is an old thread until last post. Sure seems like a lot of them have been hit in last few days.
One point I did not see in any post was fire hazard. My Mom's house caught on fire due to cigar tossed into the pine needle mulch. That was it for the pine straw and hello red dyed mulch!
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kt -
HOLY MOLY! Kind of gives a new comprehension of things when you see someone flick a butt out the window...of any kind - sorry to hear that.
I was sent this by a buddy of mine from the industry. I do not know how much truth there is, but, it sure does make sense and attention should be taken...
Notice from your Home Builder's Association
Please be advised of the following warning and pass along to your friends, fellow builders, landscapers, etc.
Louisiana agricultural dept. web site FYI.
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.
K Dennis
Executive Officer
Marshall County Home Builder's Assoc.
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What a couple of rays of sunshine you two are this morning. I hope the concrete and metal will keep me from the Formosa. I guess I should not use my needles as mulch? I burned a lot of them this year to remove some stumps. It is a bit like spreading gasoline.
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