Re: Ants in compost

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• Subject: Re: Ants in compost
• From: N* M* <n*@WOLFENET.COM>
• Date: Thu, 6 Feb 1997 13:54:01 -0800
• In-Reply-To: <199702060551.VAA19749@switzerland.it.earthlink.net>

Kurt,

You may have killed some of the microbes in your compost pile when you
added the boiling water. As most have said, let the ants be, they'll help
you out. We tend to leave any bugs/grubs/slugs in our compost pile since
they all help with the process. In addition to scaring the ants away, your
pile will also compost faster and stay hotter if you turn it more
frequently.

I've had luck with keeping ants away from selected crops by sprinkling HOT
cayenne pepper around the plants.

Natalie McNair-Huff
Happily Gardening in Tacoma, WA Sunset zone 5; USDA Zone 7/8
Publisher/Editor Mac Net Journal http://www.blol.com/web_mnj/

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