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Re: Ants

I have been monitoring this thread and must stick in a word. Yes, ants eat
both strawberries, potatoes, turnips.  I can not grow a crop of turnips. As
soon as the root bulbs and shows above ground the ants are at them. When I
pull the root the ants erupt from the soil by the bazillions and you would
never guess they were there doing all that damage underground.

I asked Margaret about this problem and she gave me this advice "> One thing
you could try is dehydrate banana peels, pulverize and mix into the soil
around the turnip area.  I've been told the potassium is attractive to the
ants, but it kills them.
Maybe it's ant chocolate. ;-))

At 09:42 AM 2/6/97 -0500, Cindi Trunk wrote:
Are you sure the ants ate them and not birds? i've never seen ants eat
>any vegetables or fruits...mostly reak havoc in the root systems so it
>is a problem when we are pulling up plants.
>
>cindi, zone 9 NE Florida
>
>SQ>I had some black ants last year, but they weren't exactly small ones.  I
>SQ>don't think that they bite or at least I never got bit by one.  But I did
>SQ>plant strawberries in some large clay strawberry pots for my patio and the
>SQ>ants not only moved into them but they ate all my berries too!  I didn't
>SQ>poison them but I bet they'll be back eventhough I have no strawberry plants
>SQ>left. I guess that's another problem I'll have to figure out how to solve as
>SQ>soon as they wake up from their winter snooze.  Being this is my first year
>SQ>for planting tomatoes, now I'm wondering, will these ants eat them too?
>
>SQ>Dot Geib
>SQ>Pitt Meadows, BC Canada
>SQ>Zone 7/8
>
>
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