[Market-farming] ants
sora at coldreams.com
sora at coldreams.com
Mon Jul 13 15:16:13 EDT 2009
>
> I am having trouble with a bumper crop of ant hills this year. These are
> not the normal ants, these make huge hills that can reach over 3 feet
> across
> and over a foot tall. They are scattered around my farn, but now are they
> are closing in on my house and garden. And they bite! I've tried "grits"
> but that didn't help. I am reluctant to use strong pesticides because I
> get
> my water from a shallow well and believe whatever I put on the ground
> today
> comes out the faucet tomorrow. Any suggestions on how to get rid of the
> ants?
> I get these also, a medium sized red ant that bites, fire ants...
I've had good luck with diatomaceous earth spread heavily all over the hills.
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