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Re: Speaking of Ants and Cinnamon

> Supposedly ants do not
> like to cross coffee grounds and the directions said to cover the area at
> the base of the plants with used grounds

Thanks - I will try that this year around my corn plants.  I always
have a really bad ant/aphid problem on them.  Has anyone used
tanglefoot on the corn stalks?

> By the way, I swear I read on rec.gardening that sprinkling cinnamon would
> help arrest damping off. Maybe I'm confusing it with ant repellant ? In any
> case I'm trying it on some leek seedlings I recently started.

I read that too.  It definitely said sprinkling cinnamon will kill
the damping off.  Haven't tried it yet though.

Kim Kiernan
kimk@pacbell.net
Laguna Hills, So. California

zone 9, Sunset zone 22/23
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