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Re: Ants Invading Meager Garden Space

Dear gardening folks,

Ants in the garden I know about. Last year they were all over my okra
blooms. When you harvested okra you also received an arm of ants. Theyy
were on the pea blooms as well and aphids were bad in my peas. The
greatest destruction was in my field corn I raised for meal. The ants
totally ate 1/4 acre of corn. When harvest time came there was nothing
but powder in the husks. The husks looked filled out but nothing but a clean
cob inside.

This year they do not seem to be so bad as last.

Love gardening ants and all,

Dave

On Tue, 24 Jun 1997, Westaway, Shawn wrote:

> Hi Scott, you wrote:
>
> >How can i get ants from invadeing my meager garden space?
> >when i water many ants come out along from the edgeing.
>
> Are the ants bothering anything? We have ants all over our
> veggie garden, and they don't seem to do much damage. Awhile
> back we had a long thread about ants in compost piles, and
> I think the upshot was that you can't really get rid of them,
> but if you turn the pile often, it disturbs their nest and
> they go elsewhere. I know ants often farm aphids, and if you
> dislodge the aphids they have to start all over again, so you
> might look for aphids, or maybe even whiteflies. I don't know
> of any ant barriers that people have used and said worked.
> Anyone else out there have advice?
> Shawn
> swestaway@smtplink.coh.org
> Claremont, CA USDA9b Sunset19
>
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