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  • From: mIEKAL aND <dtv@mwt.net>
  • To: permaculture <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [permaculture] Ants & how to make them go away
  • Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2007 16:57:41 -0500

David:

This is the first thing I tried before trying the boric acid, the aspartane, fire, pyganic & chickens... I talk to them all the timeā€”in fact the other day I was telling them to get off my elderberries as I was harvesting them, right before a bunch of them crawled in my ear.

~mIEKAL


On Aug 1, 2007, at 11:57 PM, yarrow@sfo.com wrote:

At 9:34 AM -0500 8/1/07, mIEKAL aND wrote:
...invite any of you with brilliant or crackpot ideas about solutions to
join the discussion.

Have you tried "talking" to the ants about boundaries? I'm serious.

Some years (decades) ago I was living in an apartment where I saw one
cockroach. I'd been reading J. Allen Boone's _Kinship with all life_
and Michael Roads's book about how he was able to garden in
kangaroo/wallaby country. The previous owner could not have a garden,
even behind a fence, because the critters would jump over and help
themselves. Basically, he talked to the critters and told them that
the garden inside the fence was his; they could have anything outside
the fence, and he'd leave them alone; but if they ate anything inside
the fence, he'd hunt them down. Then when he sold the property, he
told the new owner about his "arrangement." The new owner thought he
was bonkers, and was not able to have a garden because of predation.

So I tried "talking to" the cockroach: don't let me see you or any of
your relatives, I said, and I won't bother you; if I do see you or
yours in numbers or on a regular basis, I'll hunt you down. It
worked! I didn't see another one until the week I was moving out.




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