"Mike Lyle" wrote in message
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Pam Moore wrote:
On Tue, 2 Aug 2005 21:14:30 +0100, "Tumbleweed"
wrote:


To the original poster use clove oil, that'll drive the buggers
away
and keep them out, also garlic sometimes.

Oil of cloves; isn't that what used to be recommended for
toothache?
Can you guarantee that it will also drive off ants? In solution I
assume?
Garlic how? crushed? planted?
Thanks anyway!

Haven't heard of oil of cloves for this purpose, but it's certainly
worth trying if you don't want to use the products of the chemical
industry. Till we hear back from Tumbleweed, though, my guess is that
it wouldn't drive out a colony that was already established: like
bees, they can't take a laying queen anywhere, as far as I know.

LOL. That wasnt me, that was the person who thinks that oil of cloves
contains no chemicals and that ants move around like people on 'Location
Location Location'.

Perhaps the lady who doesnt like chemicals could try spraying with a mixture
of boiled up tobacco leaves, chrysanthemums, castor oil beans, Conium
maculatum, berries from Atropa belladonna, derris plants and Taxus baccata.
As these are natural, they obviously contain no chemicals and are therefore
completely safe, just spray them liberally around.

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