09-18-2007, 07:31 AM
Dave, I think the reason my drench works here is the fact that the soil is so shallow that the queen gets it every time. When I used this method back in Georgia, it only worked about half the time, with the usual result being that the mound just moved over.
My neighbor there had an unusual method. He would take a broom handle and drive it as far into the mound as he could. He would then dump a shot glass or two of gasoline down the resulting hole. He would wait a few minutes for the fumes to permeate the mound and then ignite it to eliminate the residual contamination of the gasoline, or so he reasoned. This worked every time, but I never did it because of the pollution and the fact that grass would take quite a while to grow back over the spots he treated. He called it "nuking the little bastards."
Cheers,
Jerry
My neighbor there had an unusual method. He would take a broom handle and drive it as far into the mound as he could. He would then dump a shot glass or two of gasoline down the resulting hole. He would wait a few minutes for the fumes to permeate the mound and then ignite it to eliminate the residual contamination of the gasoline, or so he reasoned. This worked every time, but I never did it because of the pollution and the fact that grass would take quite a while to grow back over the spots he treated. He called it "nuking the little bastards."
Cheers,
Jerry