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Re: Eggplant ants

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Jim, Valerie-  I have no idea how my email address came to be here on this
msg. In any case, thanks for the tip on coffee grounds repelling some
insects. I will give that a try.

bill missen.

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Sent: Saturday, June 03, 2000 9:21 PM
Subject: Re: Eggplant ants


| Square Foot Gardening List - http://www.flinet.com/~gallus/sqft.html
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| In a message dated 6/3/00 7:39:10 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
| billmissen@sprint.ca writes:
|
| << My father-in-law
|  | suggested I just put Ortho ant killer around the
|  | eggplants base. Then the ants won't be able to even
|  | get to the flowers to eat the stems off. I'll let you
|  | know how it goes but if anyone wants to suggest
|  | something natural before I use the Ortho stuff, let me
|  | know!! >>
|
| Hi Valerie,
|    Generally ants themselves won't do much damage to your plants. They may
| chew some strawberries or some other sweet things, but I've never seen
them
| do much else. The big problem with ants is that they like to "farm"
aphids.
| Ants like the sweet sticky stuff that aphids secrete and aphids can do
| serious damage to your crops. Before you start throwing poison around your
| garden I would suggest putting your old coffee grounds around the base of
| your eggplants (or any other plants that have ants all over them) I've had
| quite a bit of luck with this very simple, non poisonous  solution to the
ant
| problem.
|    If the ants are being attracted to the plants because the plants
already
| have aphids, give the plants a good washing with a hard spray from your
| garden hose and try to attract lady bugs to the garden. Lady bugs love to
| munch on aphids.
|    Good luck.
| Jim K
|
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