Tap Posted May 5, 2016 Posted May 5, 2016 (edited) I found a few termites in my raised vegetable bed. They are going after the timbers that it was built with 5+ years ago. The damage seems recent, and there is very little of it...maybe the size of a dollar bill or so. But, obviously they came from somewhere, so we are going to treat the house just in case. We plan to do the trench method outside and under the house with Premise. My vegetable garden is a raised bed, square foot (pretty much organic) garden that is full of premium soil, vermiculite, peat moss and compost.I found the termites as I was turning the soil getting ready to put my plants in the ground. I Hate to lose all of the soil to the chemicals. I was wondering if I could remove most of the soil, but leave a 6 inch area around the posts, so I don't disrupt the activity while we treat. Would that be too disruptive? Or......would there be termites in the soil too, and I would just be relocating them? I only saw them on the wood, not in the dirt but, I assume they have to have a path back to the queen. After a month or so, when we see they are dead, the posts will go to yard debris recycling. I may move the remaining soil to pots that I can then use for growing cut flowers, but not food. Uggg.....there is several hundreds of dollars in this garden, I guess it is all going to be wasted. :0( Anything I can do to save it? Edited May 5, 2016 by Tap Quote
abacus2 Posted May 5, 2016 Posted May 5, 2016 Where is your bed? If it is next to your house, I would let it go. If it is somewhere else in your yard, they won't treat it anyway. Quote
Tap Posted May 5, 2016 Author Posted May 5, 2016 (edited) Where is your bed? If it is next to your house, I would let it go. If it is somewhere else in your yard, they won't treat it anyway. a few feet from the house. We have an area on the side of our house that is covered in rock, where you would park a boat/rv. There is a wood fence on the other side of the rock. The earth is covered in landscape fabric and then about 4 inchs deep of 1-2 inch river rock. We moved the rock aside and put the raised beds on the landscape fabric, then put the rock back surrounding the wood frame. The beds are about 6" deep. Edited May 5, 2016 by Tap Quote
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