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Re: ants

B. Cohen wrote:
>
> In a message dated 97-06-29 14:31:46 EDT, you write:
>
> << I might add another problem with ants in the garden is that you never
>  know where they have chosen to make their home. If you sit on the side of
>  your raised beds while working you are very likely to become covered by
>  them as they team out of the mulch and up your back. Quite a shock indeed.
>
>  Dave
>   >>
>
> Oh, *that's* a really good reason to potentially wipe out ladybugs, spiders,
> birds, worms, etc. . . .    Nevermind!
>
        Glad to see you are coming around! However, although it is a good
reason, it is neither necessary nor likely. Only the most fanatic and
ignorant of 'GreenPeace/EarthFirst Activists' types try to convince folk
that spot application of even Diazinon (which is -not- what we have been
discussing or recommending) will -wipe out- Ladybugs, spiders, birds,
worms and etc.
        But I'm sure you knew this. You would never use sarcasm, hyperbole or a
hostile tone to proselytize an extreme, cultist version of Organic
Gardening. Since this would seem to support the Idea that only crazed,
"Can't seem to find their way out of the Sixties",
Earth-Loving/Human-Hating Kazinski-ites are doing Organic Gardening.
That's not a way to win folk over. Suggesting alternatives is one thing,
Haranguing folk is another.
        Ants belong in an eco-system, but not in my garden. Unless you have
never slapped a mosquito I am sure you won't object to me killing a few
ant nests in -MY- yard! You can do what ever you want to in -YOUR- yard
as long as you don't try to bully folk with snide, hostile,
pseudo-scientific demagoguery.
        I think they have a list where that kind of half-baked mythology is
accepted as fact but this is the Square Foot Gardening List.

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