Vegetables Gardening - Growing Organic Vegetables

jeff, you crack me up. First of all I'm living in MS under protest. ha ha. I'm really a northern New Englander but we inherited my hubby's parents farm about 15 years ago. Our place in New Hampshire doubled in value in 4 years and DH got downsized at age 59. He was sick of shoveling snow, sooooo here we are. We can't afford to move back. I hate the heat and humidity but there are advantages to living here like being able to garden year round, not having to shovel a tunnel to the chicken house etc. The people are really nice and don't give you a dirty look when you tell them you're a Christian. You're name sounds familiar. I think you have been on some of my other groups. Gail PS I hate southern food
To: Organic_Gardening@yahoogroups.com
From: jeff_faithwalker@yahoo.com
Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2012 07:59:10 -0800
Subject: Re: [Organic_Gardening] Fire Ants

Gail,

The One thing that is a guaranteed cure for all pest in the soil is fire. So you need to go to the store and get a couple of hundred pounds of briquets then heap the soil that is infected and then cover the heap with the briquets and fire them up when they are all going start to gently turn them into the pile. If you can cover the pile with 50Lbs fine and then after you have integrated the first batch into the pile use the second 50lb.s as a top coat and get them going and then just let them burn.

Now Gail, being a Mississippian, Ya'll might want to take advantage of this cure for the fire ants and get a rack of Ribs and Taters maybe a pot of Crawdads and invite so folks over to help ya with this and make a party of it. Think of it as throw'n a Wake for the Fire Ants......

Oh and crying is okay.....no matter your age or gender for it is the emergency release valve that God built into all us.

Jeff

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From: gail41647 <glsh47@hotmail.com>

To: Organic_Gardening@yahoogroups.com

Sent: Wednesday, February 22, 2012 5:21 PM

Subject: [Organic_Gardening] Fire Ants

Does anybody have problems with these besides me? I had to replace my 2 raised beds because the wood rotted. When I built them about 8 years ago I mixed a lot of organic material in the dirt so I wanted to save the dirt. We dug out the dirt and put it in a childs plastic swimming pool and covered it with a tarp because it was going to rain. Well,I guess it got nice and warm under the tarp because when we put it back in the new beds it was loaded with fire ants. I have been battling these d--n things for years and when I saw all those ants I lost it and had a temper tantum and started crying. (it's OK, I'm an old women) I don't know how I'm going to get them out and still stay organic. I can't pour boiling water over them because there's no mound. They are dispersed throughout the dirt. I did some research online and someone said take some peanut butter and put in some honey and boric acid. I put a glob on the end of a popcicle stick and placed it near

thier trail. It's been there for a couple of days and only a few of them are eating it. i need to start planting now. Anyone have any ideas?

Gail

frustrated in southern MS

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