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Re: Eggplant ants

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Jim:  What attracts lady bugs?  I haven't seen a one this year.  A couple of
years ago everyone in this area had hundreds of them and they were even in
our houses.    ...  Nickie
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Sent: Saturday, June 03, 2000 11:21 PM
Subject: Re: Eggplant ants


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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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