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Joined: Aug 2006
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Whats the best ant killer to put out that is safe for food producing plants
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Pan full of boiling water if they are isolated. Somebody will say Diatomaceous Earth, but mine were not impressed by it.
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Life is a journey. Make sure and bring plenty of Beer.
My luck has been so bad lately, it could be raining pussies and I'd catch one with a dick broke off in it.
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Old Mossy Horns
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This is gonna sound crazy. Find some Argentina ants. They're everywhere. aka Pissants. Take a shovel of them and dump them on the fire ant's. Fire ants will be gone shortly. They do not co-exist. The only negative to the Argentine ants, that I know of, is they come in the house sometimes. But you can't stop that either, for long.
Character is not developed in moments of temptation and trial. That is when it is intended to be used.
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Freak of Nature
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I’ve used this around my grape vines. Says it’s safe for garden. It does kill the mound. ![[Linked Image from i.postimg.cc]](https://i.postimg.cc/T1BDmCdt/IMG-2859.jpg)
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I buy the Terro Ant Bait stakes and place them around the perimeter of my garden, seems to work pretty well. I guess depends on how big your garden plot is or how many plots you have. Mine is about 30' X 30'.
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My yard, and subsequently my garden, have been absolutely infested with fire ants for a while. I bought a 40g tractor sprayer and sprayed bifenthrin 7.9% all through the yard and on my muscadines and blueberries BUT mine are all planted this year and not bearing.
The bifen definitely knocked down the general population but new mounds are still popping up so I’ve been sprinkling them with Amdro bait granules. It seems to be working well.
If you aren’t directly spraying the plants, I would say do a “drench” of each mound with the bifen. You could also use the amdro granules just sprinkled all around the garden that they’ll take back, eat, and die.
If you do want to spray your plants, Sevin is the spray I would use. It has a harvest schedule on the label saying how many days ahead of harvest you can spray it. Some stuff is only 1 day, some stuff might say 14 days. But it’s what I would use.
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