Could It Be True? Wood Chips from the Cedars to Douglass are

Today, the com­mon dia­tribe is “wood chip is all the same and leaches tox­ins into the soil killing or harm­ing the plants or envi­ron­ment“
The truth as ver­i­fied by Dr Linda Chalker-Scott PHD.of Puyallup Wash­ing­ton AG Exten­sion is that most chip comes from the tree, not from third party grinders full of downed wood stock piles that have been up to sor­did auc­tions. The major­ity of chipped wood for mulch is a by prod­uct of the sawmill and avoids con­tact with “used wood stockpiles.

After a long term study she found that pheromone activ­i­ties in woods/barks of Junipe­rus, Thuja, Pine and other woods such as wal­nut are active pest con­trol agents and assist in elim­i­nat­ing or repelling ants, ter­mites and roaches until the pheromone exhausts itself, usu­ally within a month or two.

Dr. Linda Chalker-Scott affirms the need for avoid­ing smoth­er­ing the plants by over lay­er­ing with mulch or not includ­ing enough nitro­gen or food sources to keep the plants immune healthy and growing!

What ever you use, adding pheromonal essences to your wood mulches will fur­ther dis­cour­age insect inva­sion and with care increase your gar­den­ing suc­cess. Click here for abstract

Nat­ural Wood Preservatives