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Re: Eggplant ants

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   Aphids attract lady bugs but you wouldn't want them:>)
You can buy them at some greenhouses.  I don't believe they are very
expensive.

Jim allAn zone 5 New York State
Northeastern USA.
----- Original Message -----
From: Nickie A. Shasteen <nickie@fanninelectric.com>
To: Square Foot Gardening List <sqft@listbot.com>
Sent: Wednesday, June 07, 2000 12:13 AM
Subject: 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
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <BssnRX@aol.com>
> To: <sqft@listbot.com>
> Sent: Saturday, June 03, 2000 11:21 PM
> Subject: Re: Eggplant ants
>
>
> > Square Foot Gardening List - http://www.flinet.com/~gallus/sqft.html
> >
> > 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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