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formerly RGG

Any of you fellow growers using cornmeal in your patch? I will this year after what I have found out about it. Check out this link:http://gardening.about.com/od/naturalorganiccontrol/qt/Cornmeal.htm
Cornmeal is a great food for beneficial micro organisms. It is also recommended for worm food for worm growers. And we all know that worms are great for the soil. So I feel the addition of cornmeal to my garden soil is going to add to the health of my plants. Any thoughts ?

3/6/2011 11:08:14 AM

South East

We put it in ours. Tina has put it in her Mater patch. Cornmeal is suppose to help control Ants too...:)

3/6/2011 12:12:22 PM

Ontario

Yep use it here too...

3/6/2011 12:27:21 PM

Jamul

This link might be useful on this topic/thread.


http://attra.ncat.org/attra-pub/altsoilamend.html

3/6/2011 1:15:33 PM

Corryton, TN

Interesting article. I wonder if it has anything to do with simple crop rotation? More homework!

3/6/2011 1:25:59 PM

sevierville, Tn

I have antlions around all my melons. They get the ants ! LOL It freaked me out the 1st time i saw it.

3/6/2011 2:48:21 PM

Owensboro, Ky.

Chris, never heard about antlions...any direct links to help me out?
PS...been using cornmeal for years...Doc Gipe,(I think) suggested it years ago, as an antifungal agent!!! Peace, Wayne

3/6/2011 3:13:12 PM

El Paso TX.

Here's a good Youtube video of them ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWkfAyfBDHE&feature=player_embedded )

3/6/2011 4:08:08 PM

sevierville, Tn

They just show up, i don't put them there. When i'm board, i find some ants & feed them.

3/6/2011 5:46:23 PM

Bowdon, GA

We called em duddle bugs as kids. We'd try to get them to bite a peice of straw and pull them out of the sand. I didn't know what they ate. They love the dry dirt in the barn

3/6/2011 6:19:52 PM

Linden, Mi.,

I thought duddle bugs ate cow pies or do I have that mixed up another bug ??????

3/6/2011 6:32:08 PM

Linden, Mi.,

any how, if they eat ants, I wish I had them up here. I have been over ran with ants

3/6/2011 6:33:49 PM

Bowdon, GA

Could be. Probably a local term.

3/6/2011 7:30:39 PM

Linden, Mi.,

yea could be, thats where I learned about the bug, but now
as I go back through the pages I think I am thinking of a tumble bug

3/6/2011 7:40:07 PM

sevierville, Tn

they are just novelty, i have a million ants since i started growing. They eat any dead bugs. Don't bother the fruit. Mine don't like sweets at all, they eat meat(bugs).
I tried sugar, didn't touch the stuff.

3/6/2011 7:53:15 PM

sevierville, Tn

Also, they are a small reddish black ant, very hardy. Sprays don't hurt they at all. You have to direct hit them with raid to even phase them. Even so it takes 10 min to die. So i just leave them alone.

3/6/2011 7:56:42 PM

South Bloomfield, Ohio

Doodle bugs(ant lions) were quite prevalent in the deep south of Alabama. As kids, my sister and I would play in the loose sand under my grandmother's house and entertain ourselves for hours with them. They build a "reverse volcano" shaped depression in the sand and wait for an unsuspecting insect to venture too close to the edge. No insect could make it back up the loose sand.

3/6/2011 8:53:28 PM

Niagara Falls,NY

If it's a fungicide,will it hurt mycorrhizae?

3/7/2011 12:23:53 PM

formerly RGG

I have read that it does not effect mycor.

3/7/2011 4:12:28 PM

Niagara Falls,NY

That's cool,thanks

3/9/2011 8:07:39 PM