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The ants are eating all my fruit seeds!! GRR! Please help!
#270143 Mar 22nd, 2009 at 01:15 PM
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Help! I tried to plant some strawberry seeds in my garden so I would have fresh fruit but I came back outside and ants were EATING the seeds! I do not know how to stop them but I want some fresh grown strawberries before fall.
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magicalbunny #270211 Mar 22nd, 2009 at 03:26 PM
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sprinkle dry cornmeal out there they eat it and then drink water and it blows them up lol ( can't digest it) :wink:

Are you sure it's not birds eating the seeds??? notme

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angelblossom #270618 Mar 24th, 2009 at 06:51 PM
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Let us know if angelblossom's advice worked for you. I had hundreds of ants in my greenhouse last year and this might work for me if it happens again this year.

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Rosepetal #270833 Mar 26th, 2009 at 07:37 AM
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changing the subject altogether. How long does it take strawberry seeds to grow into plants to produce strawberries? I started mine from plants or roots or whatever you call them.


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Bestofour #270847 Mar 26th, 2009 at 09:51 AM
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It has always worked for me. Even better if you can find the hill/nest and make a ring of cornmeal around it.

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