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Re: Ant Question

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Where do you get things like beneficial nematodes?

Peg
-----Original Message-----
From: Tom Meunier <tmeunier@ix.netcom.com>
To: Square Foot Gardening List <sqft@listbot.com>
Date: Monday, September 20, 1999 4:09 AM
Subject: Re: Ant Question


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>Hi Debbie,
>
>I must have been blessed with terrific luck or something: Fire ants went
>away after one easy treatment, and have never come back.  And I live in the
>fire ant capital of the world, Austin.   Thanks for letting me get up on my
>soapbox, while all of my neighbors are out in their yards spooning poison
>granules into their fire ant mounds.
>
>Beneficial nematodes.   No more fire ants.   I do one treatment in the
>spring, two if I remember.    Haven't seen a flea in a few years, either.
>And the place was infested with 'em when I bought it from the guy with 6
>dogs.
>
>Everyone I've met that says nematodes don't work for fire ants and fleas
>hasn't tried it.  Or are spraying 'em on their lawn that has so much poison
>soaked into it that nothing but fire ants, fleas, and cockroaches could
live
>there.   Good luck!
>
>Tom
>Austin, TX
>Whatever Zone That Would Be.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Debbie <trublood@snowhill.com>
>To: Square Foot Gardening List <sqft@listbot.com>
>Date: Sunday, September 19, 1999 10:42 PM
>Subject: Ant Question
>
>
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>>OK, all you sq ft "masters" - I need help.  I'm about to add fall soil
>>amendments like manure and such.  Since the only thing left in my sq ft
>>garden is watermelons - I covered the unused squares with big sheets of
>>cardboard... figuring they'd protect the soil, it's been really dry here
as
>>well.
>>
>>When I lifted the edge of one of the pieces of cardboard (hoping to see
>>worms.... silly me) there were huge masses of fireants.  This is my
>>question - how the heck do I get rid of these suckers??
>>
>>Alabama, southeast, I think zone 7 or 8......
>>
>>DebbieT
>>
>>
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