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The Facts About Termites and Mulch
... of large chunks of wood containing enough termites to sustain reproductive forms. For example, infested railroad ties used in landscape or salvaged timbers from razed structures are known to be associated with ...
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Caribbean Crazy Ant (proposed common name), Paratrechina pubens Forel (Insecta: Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Formicinae)
... , feeding on NecDew© sweet ant bait. Nest Sites Ants were observed emerging from soffits, between railroad ties used in landscaping, under wooden debris, underground electrical conduits, and cracks in cement. They will ...
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Common Sense Gardening and Compost
... are available, they are expensive. You can construct a container from logs, exterior grade plywood, railroad ties or heavy-duty wire netting lined with polyethylene sheeting (to prevent the outside of the ...
gardenline.usask.ca

Gardening Up Front
... even disregard property lines. Another thing to recognise is that your beds do not require railroad ties, plastic edging, bricks, trellises, gnomes or any other ornamentation. More than anything else, what your ...
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A Zone-6 Vegetable Garden
... some debate, we believe that any form of pressure-treated wood (including new or used railroad ties and all the various cheap edging timbers sold in home-supply places) are a terrible ...
growingtaste.com

Root Problems on Plants in the Garden and Landscape, HYG-3061-96
... be necessary to plant in raised beds. These beds may be bordered by rocks, old railroad ties, or other structural materials specially treated and designed for landscape use. Mulch the soil surface ...
ohioline.osu.edu

Azolla and Anaebaena Symbiosis
... introduced into California near the turn of the century for fast-growing hardwood lumber for railroad ties, but proved inadequate because the spikes would not hold in the badly checked wood. Now ...
waynesword.palomar.edu

The American Chestnut Foundation
... -grained and easily worked, lightweight and highly rot-resistant, making it ideal for fence posts, railroad ties, barn beams and home construction, as well as for fine furniture and musical instruments. The ...
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The American Chestnut Foundation
... cash crop for many Appalachian families. As year-end holidays approached, nuts by the railroad car-full were shipped to New York, Philadelphia and other cities where street vendors ... was as rot resistant as redwood. It was used for virtually everything - telegraph poles, railroad ties, shingles, paneling, fine furniture, musical instruments, even pulp and plywood. THE AMERICAN CHESTNUT FOUNDATION ...
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Arnold Arboretum - Current Plant Highlights - June
... alkaline conditions. The wood, which is rot resistant, has been used in the past for railroad ties. Even during the growing season, the northern catalpa makes a bold statement with its very ...
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