Allotment Gardening Advice Help Chat
Growing => General Gardening => Topic started by: Novice on September 08, 2007, 12:53
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I'm sure this subject has been covered before ( with special reference to John kneeling in a nest of them :wink: ) but I was just checking on my 18 month old compost bin full of old horse poo and straw ( and particularly lovely it is ) and I noticed millions of the nippity little devils crawling in amongst it, and all over my hands. Questions are:
a) how am I gonna move the compost from bin, to point of use, without getting bitten to bits ?
b) will having an ants nest gonna cause problems for whatever I grow in the newly composted bed ?
c) does anyone else think Watford will get automatic promotion this season :lol:
Thanks
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Must admit, I've never had many ants in my compost, but those thta I did, were black ones, and they soon scarpered when I started digging in it. Hope someone with more experience comes online soon for you Novice!!!!
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ants in compost usually means it's dry - as i understand it, they don't like the wet... maybe they'll get the message if you add loads of wet stuff
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Right or wrong, my first instinct would be to pour a kettle full of boiling water in.
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run ya hose in it .. as for watford? who?
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Thanks for your advice everyone, when I'm off shift I'll have a go and keep you posted - I guess you're not a fotball fan then Munty :lol:
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c) does anyone else think Watford will get automatic promotion this season :lol:
Not after they got thoroughly trounced by Leicester. :lol:
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Into each life a little rain must fall.
It's a sprint not a marathon.
Every season throws up those odd results.
etc etc etc
...ok then, fair play, you battered us - so it's us and you for automatic promotion then ?
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I have my doubts about the latter!
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football ... a group of overpaid nancy men with limited social skills as shown by rooney and the lack of english language skills as shown by beckham , smelling of shower products chasing a sperical piece of inflated leather in an attempt to catch it then kick it away .married in most cases to females with even lower iqs and a ceaseless cause to look more plastic each day... football pointless excercise to me . :wink: :wink: :lol:
now scuba diving or mountain snow climbing real sports for real men :wink:
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if they turn up in your beds - ants that is not footballers, as you would lay beer traps for slugs you can lay sugar and water traps for ants :twisted:
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run ya hose in it .. as for watford? who?
My mate started to support Watford after his doctor advised him to keep away from football :wink:
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Heard at Watford last week "For the benefit of the team we will now introduce the crowd" :lol: :lol:
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Heard at Watford last week "For the benefit of the team we will now introduce the crowd" :lol: :lol:
:lol: :lol:
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Easy tigers - this was intended to be a serious post about my red ant problem.....but you all are having a "pop" at my beloved Watford. Thats a bit unfar for such a customer friendly club. I rang them up the other day and asked what time kick off was, and they said "what time can you get here?" :oops:
Mind you MKHenry - at least when we do get there they let us in...not like the debacle last month at Stadium MK :roll:
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Easy tigers - this was intended to be a serious post about my red ant problem.....but you all are having a "pop" at my beloved Watford. Thats a bit unfar for such a customer friendly club. I rang them up the other day and asked what time kick off was, and they said "what time can you get here?" :oops:
Mind you MKHenry - at least when we do get there they let us in...not like the debacle last month at Stadium MK :roll:
I have to take that on the chin. :(
Some of my pals are stewards and they said the fans although they were bitter about it they behaved very well. :wink:
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...and as if that wan't bad enough - when we eventually did get in ( right on the stroke of half time ) we found out there is a strict "no beer for away fans rule" !! It's the 1st time since I was 16 that I saw Watford sober !! ( no easy digs there fols )
Anyhooo - back to the original prob...I'll be attacking the compost bin and the nippity little chaps tomorrow and will report back accordingly
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as this is a " red " ant non suporters discussion .all power to the masses ..i say leave them alone... power to the labourites .come the revolution ..........look at all the crop protection they give ya .
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UPDATE:I have to report that I broke down two out of 3 compost bins, and to my amazement and disappointment....not a red ant in sight !! Did one of you lot tip them off and they did a runner ? Also, despite the fact that there were some "interesting" looking holes towards the bottom of the stack, nothing was unearthed there either.
So, the net result is, I have dug in the compost into two of my beds, and I now have space for an asparagus bed. This will be about 10 feet square ( does that sound big enough ? ) All I have to do now is have a good read of Muntys post re: asaparagus, and I will be off and running.
Thanks for your help
Watford live on TV on Sun...but so are Kerry in the All Ireland Gaelic football final....oh no, I'll have to make a decision !
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Unless you're feeding your own personal army, 10 foot square should do a small family well. Be patient as it will take a few years to come into full production - and well worth the wait at the end. :wink: