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The ants go marching one by one, Hurrah, Hurrah!

Category: The Garden Project | Posted: Wed Jun 09, 2010 7:10 am

Unfortunatly for me, its not one by one :( I've had quite the infestation goin on within my property lines.. I can only imagine what some of the un-tidy neighbors around the corner are dealin with *shrug* :) They've taken a liking to my plumeria which I recently moved outside on my front door "patio". They dont seem to be causing any damage, I can only hope they're not immune to the poisonous sap... Ugh, now I have guilt. Im a vegetarian, Hurting animals isnt on my agenda... But ants arent animals rite? I refuse to use the poison my husband bought for them when we recieved our first invasion of them 3 years ago... I yell at him and restrict his *privlages* when he uses it since he doesnt believe in organic anything... Im at my witts end with the damn little things... I heard they're pretty scrumptious with a peppery overtone... Hmmm. Anyone have any botanical ways to keep them out without dancing naked under the full moon? (Im all for it, its the neighbors I worry about *wink*) Im just happy they arent in the house as of the moment, Well.... rite now they're not. I seem to have the luck to find a thick black stream of them when im heading to bed or out the door (dont you hate that?) My method of ridding them consists of a wet ant-rag (old washcloth lol) and lots of me begging them not to come back (begging between sobbing)

So I didnt get a computer for mah B-day, I decided on my rotozip, a jigsaw and some bits for it LoL. We're still lookin at comps, but I've got what I really want rite now.

My greenhouse is bumpin! Its almost all peppers with some basil thrown in there along with some seedlings. My Thai peppers have boomed! I've only really gone in there to do quick waterings, so I havent really looked at all the pepper plants (probably around 20 or so... I like peppers :) ) but today since I had the time I poked around, I was surprised to see how many peppers were on them, with a boat load of flowers in bloom and buds still quickly coming in... I cant wait to cook with em! I think I mite try and fuse them with some oil.. That'd be a nice little kick in a salad! I orderd a couple packets of Peter Peppers from pepper joes, Im looking forward to selling em, I'll have my second greenhouse up by the winter, so I'll be able to house even more peppers for retail. Im super excited about starting this. Unlike every nursery and do it yourself center around here, I (for the most part)know what Im talking about, Im friendly, kinda bi-lingual, and I actually care about what Im doing. Plus I'll have peppers NO ONE here carries. Among some of them will be Naga Jolokias (My main crop), Black Cobras, Wild card carribeans, Peter peppers, Kung paos and various others! I dont mean to knock nurseries btw.. Its just the ones here could really care less about the plants. They're so very dry, and when I ask the staff questions that I KNOW the answers to, and they couldnt be further from the truth, And thats IF i can get someone to give me the time of day. Quite honestly the last time I went to the nursery up the street looking for a very specific type of rose, all I got was "The roses are over there, if you cant find it, we dont carry them" Wow, really? So preceptive! I was looking for Florabunda playboys, I can guarentee you, if I owned my own nursery, I'd be alot more attentive to my customers, And I would be able to tell you if we carried a specific item, being that I would be doing all the ordering/growing, And if I didnt have it I would be able to get it for you or refer you to someone who had it available to them. I'd be as resourceful as possible, maybe even have a weekly class for begginer gardeners or persons with interests. I cant tell you how put off I was with the lack of knowledge my local garden centers had on gardening.. Why work there if you have no idea and dont care to know what it is you're selling. The lack of passion people have is incredible, I always believe if you were going to do something, you should do it with all your heart! I want someone to look at my buisness and say "WOW! She loves what she does!" I can only hope starting out with these pepper seeds leads me in that direction... Oh, to dream. Another one of my buisness ventures is chicken tracktors, I've fallen head over heals in love with them. I really want people to realize what lives chickens lead in order to provide week old eggs (some studies show that your eggs could be 3 weeks old by the time they hit your store shelves, EW!) How incredible would it be to go out to your patio/backyard and retrive your own organic free range quality eggs and make em into an omlette with your garden fresh veggies! I actually wouldnt mind eating eggs again (I have tremendous guilt when it comes to a good deal of animal products, im a sap, I know) Anyhow. Anyone with any interest in what I have going on, hit me up, im only a click away. Im thinkin up shop names too if anyone would like to chime in :D Rite now its looks as if Helping Hands is in the lead with Pepper Parade in close second, I dont want to limit myself to just peppers tho, my goal is to provide organic producing plants/trees at an affordable price (Not 80 for a bartlett pear seedling) Maybe even have local delivery in spring/summer for our busy homestead customers! Im tryin to come up with something natural for the second title grabber for instance
Helping Hands
Bringing Nature back to home
or
Helping Hands
Natural Resource

Something to that effect. Im at a total stand still with the name...

Anyhow, I've got to do things with stuff, Hopefully it wont be a week til I have the chance to write.

*Muah*


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featherphobia wrote on Mon Jun 21, 2010 2:14 am:


Can not help with your name, but I know ants hate black pepper. Sprinkle it around where you dont want them to go. I used it around the dog food bowl, it wound not hurt my dog if they ate it, they (the ants)eventualy moved it to make themselves a path thru it but I moved it back. this worked well untill I found out about putting the dog food bowl in a pan of water.





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