Ahh, we recently found lots of termite activity around the home (luckily,
not the actual house) so of course we have the whole Sentricon system in
place.

Needless to say we have removed the food source (and possibly where many may
have been introduced) - the 700kg woodchips in our gardens. Mainly had it
to stop weeds more than anything. What a weekend that was!!!

We now have weedmat with Sugar Cane Mulch - the good thing is, one of the
gardens has had this solution for a while now with not one weed in it.
Before we had anything we were doing major garden rip out and weedings every
few months.

Although anything with cellulose will be a nice food source for termites, we
have found the weedmat underneat allows the water to get to the garden and
keeps the mulch about dry yet the gardens moist - hence the termites are
less likely to go for non breaking down materials that are dry. Not only
that but the mulched gardens are going nuts! For example we are pruning the
roses every 3 months as they are getting out of hand, we have a peach on a
peach tree that was bought as a 2 ft tree about 4 months ago (tree is now
6ft) and nuts on our 8ft Macadamia that was purchased as a 4ft wiry tree
about 12 mths ago. I cannot recommend the weed mat and sugar cane mulch
solution high enough.

Now all I need to know is why the Lime tree (in the same garden) has only
grown about 30cm in 2.5yrs!!! Me thinks the tree might be a retarded
specimen......



"Holy Zarquon's Singing Fish" wrote in message
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"Wanda" writes:

A couple of people have suggested this could be whiteant
attracting. Have you had, or heard of, this? Just incase I have kept
the mulch about 10cm away from the house.

Well, when whiteants breed they can travel a long way to find a new
home, so to stop attaracting termites to your house, you really need
to remove all sources of wood from around 100km around your house.
These days, termite contractors actually place sawdust baits outside
your house to detect termites before they invade your house. You can
use your mulch for much the same purpose.

Also, these creatures are not stupid. They will colonise the easiest
to eat areas first (soft damp rotting wood) and only move on to the
less palatable sources when their numbers are up.

Even termite removal contractors don't moan about woodchip mulch
around the house, although they do tend to grumble about logs, and
wood used for garden beds and other structural purposes.

My 2 cents.

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