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One should be careful about accepting as true and passing on stories without first verifying. I've attached a link to a Houston newspaper article addressing the Louisiana mulch scare. Louisiana put mulch on lockdown. The only stuff that may get out is through lawbreakers, which makes it somewhat unlikely that Home Depot or other chains will end up with it.
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Tinkman,
That is good, but did they lock down mulch in the other gulf coast states hit by Katrina that also could have the same problem?
For those of us who have fire ants that came in through New Orleans port many years ago we are not comfortable. No doubt Louisiana is better at keeping mulch in than getting people out.
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I've always been told that bugs hate Cypress mulch and will go elsewhere. When I do mulch, I do cypress around a house and then go with local stuff around other trees and berms, etc. Michigan has a problem with Emerald Ash borers so you can't transport wood from county to county. Usually you can get as much local stuff as you want free if you load it yourself after a good storm. Many of the local tree service guys want to charge for it, since they can sell it to nurserys. They can also haul it to Flint, MI where they have a wood fired power generator that gives them something for it.
When not doing mulch, I generally choose round smooth stones that we call river rock. It is natural, doesn't stain and doesn't catch as many leaves and other vegetation in the fall.
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kt,
Your comment "No doubt Louisiana is better at keeping mulch in than getting people out", is interesting. With everything (finger pointing, etc) that has come to light with the gazillions of investigations into why things did not work, I hope that the stuff will stay put.
When I was working in northern Georgia some years ago, I had the experience of a personal encounter with Fire Ants. NO MERCY that those little buggers have !!!! WOW....I can still remember the E.R. !
I had gotten some eucalyptus shreaded bark some years ago. It smelled good, and was real soft, and did not have to worry about bugs - it repels them. All of a sudden though, I had a yard full of Kuala bears! ( )
- Willie H
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Down here you can use pine bark. It attracts cockroaches by the 10s of thousands. It is cheap if you like roaches. Do not put it around the edge of the house. Pine straw seems to be the choice for visiually appealing it is far from cheap(unless you like to rake) and does not last as long as other choices. I use and like cypress mulch it will control bugs and has a good halflife. I have never seen fire ants in or around the cupress mulch. If you ever get in a fire ant bed, from then on even in the dark, if you step in anything soft you will take extreme action right then no questions asked. I dont try to kill all of the fire ant mounds they kill alot of bugs, just get rid of the ones that may cause you a threat.
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Willie,
Just how much eucalyptus does it take to attrack one Kuala bear? We probably would only want a pair.
SG,
Fire ants kills a lot of bugs? What kind of bugs? I don't know of any bug that would make me want fire ants.
Really have wondered about ant eater.
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I dont have a clue what bugs they eat, they will surly attack us I figured a bug would not stand a chance. I am not going over to the mound to find out. The mounds i save are on the back fourty. What burns my but is when the first ants reach your crotch they signal and all of them attaaaaaack at the same time. What a rush.
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kt -
To be totally honest, I don't know. I put about 15 yards around the place 'cause I got sick and tired of the moles and skunks digging and kicking the "regular" mulch looking for grubs. Everytime I went out in the morning, I could figure on grabbing my steel rake and resetting alot of mulch. So I tried the eucalyptus.
We have a processing plant local to my Father's house that handles all kinds of different media. Then in the springtime, the plant turns around and donates about 150 trailer boxes worth of pallets filled with all kinds of various varieties of stuff - everything from specialized growth enhancers for Rhody's / Azaleas to twenty different types of mulch. I scoffed up as much eucalyptus as I could get.....no more bugs, no more moles, and the neighbors cat disappeared as well! Must've been all the "bears"!
SG8NUC -
Just the rememberance of them little buggers on me, and where they bit is enough to make me get up out of this chair and shake my pants legs! I am hoping that the frost that we have here is what keeps them at bay.
With all due respect, I have witnessed MANY wonderful people and moments during my time in the south, but you can keep the Fire Ants, Thank you very much.
- Willie H
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Is there a mulch dogs don't like to plunder in?
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Willie
Come on willie dont be like that I'm a nice guy I belive in shareing. How many do you need? I have heard that eucalyptus is an outstanding product I would love to try some. My main problem is Armordillas they will dig a 6" x 8" x 10" deep hole every 5 feet. Thank goodness that they are not crafty and you can walk up on them at Point blank range and dispatch of him with your weapon of choice. They will dig anywhere in anything.
KT
I dont know of any mulch, but there are items that employ velocity that work very well.
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