I'm gonna do that from now on..... I have sea salt, chunky and fine ground. Would be better than pesticides. I can put salt in the window sills. Wonder if salt would work outside on the fire ants...... I've been pouring Borax on their ant hills (mountains!). paulette in sw fla usa...... oh a salting I will go, a salting I will go, hi ho the dair-eee-ooooo, a salting I will go..... On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 9:31 PM, carol hall <lola5341@setel.com> wrote: > why did`nt you just pick up your salt shaker and salt them ants Paulett ? > > I`ve done that in my window seals... > Love Carol > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Smoochie Newton" <smoochieangelpie@gmail.com> > To: <southern-chat@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2008 6:52 AM > Subject: Re: [SOUTHERN-CHAT] Ants in Ky. > > > > Ok... canning salt.... I can get that and the chalk. I have done the > > flour thing to keep some things away from garden... works well. This > > morning I had two nickel size areas on top of the stove that were those > > crazy ants just runnin' around in circles..... there was no trail..... > > none coming...none going....they were just there like they dropped down > from > > a space ship!!! Would just be my luck that these ants are from outer > > space.....Alien Ants from Planet X..... thanks for the tips, Carol. > > > > paulette in sw fla usa.... with one eyeball on TS Gustav..... > > > > > > > > On 8/27/08, carol hall <lola5341@setel.com> wrote: > > > > > > Hi All, > > > Ants wont cross over canning salt-thats salt with out iodine.. > > > I knew a pastor who had a church in the country .. > > > I ask Her how she kelpt ant out of the church and that was her > answer... > > > Ther was an ole man who lived next door who gardened a lot and he told > me > > > the same thing... > > > He said to keep snails out of cabbage was to put flower around each > > > plant-plus he put a hand full in the top of the cabbage head...miss > that > > > ole > > > man ! > > > Love Carol in Ky. > > > > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > From: "Stella Roper" <busmar1852@webtv.net> > > > To: <Southern-Chat@rootsweb.com> > > > Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2008 1:07 AM > > > Subject: [SOUTHERN-CHAT] Ants > > > > > > > > > > Hey Paulette,I am sending this to the list...your personal address > told > > > > me "not avaiable' so let me know if you get this...probably just MSN > > > > that I am on! anyway...about those ants in your vehicle...they get in > > > > there at home, right? Well..if you park on cement...get a good > chalk, > > > > draw a circle around each tire...or around the vehicle...I hear tell > > > > ants will not cross over a chalk line. You will have to keep doing it > as > > > > it wears off. Stella P.S. Don't worry about what > the > > > > neighbors think...if it works they will be happy to learn this! (Me > > > > too) > > > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------- > > > > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > > > SOUTHERN-CHAT-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the > > > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------- > > > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > > > SOUTHERN-CHAT-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the > > > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > > > > ------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > SOUTHERN-CHAT-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > SOUTHERN-CHAT-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >