FRUITVILLE 210
COMMUNITY ALLIANCE
Fruitville210.org
F210 Community Gardening
Established 2005
This page was last updated: February 4, 2012
November 24, 2009 MEETING was held about:
Community Gardening - Victory Gardens
Robert A. Kluson, Ph.D.
Agriculture/Natural Resources
Extension Agent II
UF/IFAS - Sarasota County Extension
Please contact us if you are a resident of the
F210 area (see our Map) & want to participate
in this type of program.
Let us know if you
have a great
gardening link:
Local LINKS:
USA LINKS:
Remeber to
BUY Locally...
Sarasota Farmers Markets:
~ Wednesday at Phillilpi Estates
Every Wednesday starting Nov. 2, 2011 through April 25, 2012, 9 a.m. - 2 p.m.
~ Saturday in Downtown Sarasota
Every Saturday 7 a.m. - 1 p.m.
Rain or Shine!
Local Vegetables:
Fire Ant Control Program That Works
Before the chemical pushers started throwing Diazinon, Dursban, Myrex and Orthene at these insects, they weren’t much of a problem. The queens were territorial, there was only one queen per mound and there were very few mounds per acre. After the toxic chemical assault, the ants altered their behavior so that there are hundreds to thousands of queens per mound and large numbers of mounds per acre – except on organic sites. Here's an organic program that actually works to control this man-made problem. Read ONLINE or Print out HERE
Grits for Ant Control - Corn grits has some control on fire ants. Use the regular or quick grits, not the instant grits. The quick grits work much better than the orange oil which has the tendency to kill grass. The grits kill all of the ants within 1 to 2 days while the orange oil may not. But, the ants may come back as they will continue to hatch. In that situation, just apply more grits.
FREE Fire Ant Control - Make sure you have 2 separate Fire Ant mounds, 6-12 foot apart. Take 2 shovels - use them to stir up each mound. Fill each shovel with the MAD fire ants. NOW exchange the warriors & place them on the other ANT mound. They will go to war & go down into the mound & kill the Queen = dead ants.
Battling Fire Ants?
Read the options below for
getting ahead of the battle . . .
New URL! Please
update your bookmarks!
