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RE: A couple of things

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Just want to catch up on a couple of things I can't find the original posts
of.
	I use the newspaper trick all the time. I never used accelerant, but in
Florida things compost very quickly. As for the lead ink, most papers have
gone to Soy ink, ask your local guys before wasting those lovely Sunday
sections and ads.
	In the almost three years I have been in this house, the rows between my
beds have been covered like this twice (to control weeds), a layer of
newsprint, and a layer of wood chips/grass clippings/leaves. I now believe
that my rows are more fertile than my beds! I have lettuce, tomatoes and New
Zealand Spinach as weeds!
	As for FireAnts (I'll have to be careful here), boiling water is my
preferred method. Sometimes it even works. At the very least this will move
them to a place where you can use Orthene or something.
	I'll use boric acid on non-fire ant types if they cause too much of a
problem, but that doesn't seem to help with FireAnts. If all else fails, you
can move to Pennsylvania 8-)
	Grits and/or Cream of Wheat doesn't seem to do anything but feed them, and
dumping another nest on them only kills a shovel full of them at a time. If
it's possible, slowly pour about 3-5 gallons of boiling water right in the
center of the nest. The hot water breaks down the glue of the tunnels and
has some hope of killing or trapping the queen. But even if it doesn't, it
makes them move a lot faster than pestering them with a stick (which does
work, but you have to go out and do it several times)
	After waiting all summer long for the fall planting, I am now late! I just
started getting ready to begin to think about starting to prepare to get
started...


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