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Gardening

mopinko

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2. pour boiling water down the hill.

Reply to beac (Original post)

Sun May 27, 2012, 10:57 AM

May 2012

or if you are the sadistic type, someone here said get a plumber's torch and keep turning over the dirt and fry them as they escape. haven't tried it myself, but not because i don't have the heart.

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Ants and spiders and slugs, oh my! [View all] beac May 2012 OP

Ants... use coffee grounds. Lionessa May 2012 #1

Cool. This mornings grounds will beac May 2012 #3

pour boiling water down the hill. mopinko May 2012 #2

Like this guy?: beac May 2012 #4

be still my heart. mopinko May 2012 #5

Leave the spiders, expose the slugs for the birds, and use pennyroyal for the ants. HopeHoops May 2012 #6

I do know that "spiders are our friends" but I feel like the gardening equivalent beac May 2012 #7