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Old 04-05-2004, 11:09 PM
Franz Heymann
 
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Default ants everywhere!


"Paul Anderson" wrote in message
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"flower faerie" wrote in message
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Hello

I have lots of ant hills appearing all over my lawn. I prefer not

to
mow the lawn too short but want to try and get the ants to live
somewhere else like in the flower borders. Also I dont want to

put down
ant powder.

any ideas?

ff


We have found that Talcum Powder does the trick. It's not totally

chemical
free but I guess it's much less damaging than other powders

suggested here!

Talcum powder, like any solid, liquid or gas is a chemical. What on
earth is all this paranoia about "chemicals"?
As far as I know, talcum is just finely divided Mg3 (OH)2 Si4 O10.

The other powders which have been suggested here were Vim and Ajax. I
may be wrong, but I think both of them are just powdered chalk.

Franz