Here in Humboldt (nor California) we have done compost piles/bins that we have filled and forgotten about, it so wet that nothing but black dirt is left come spring. We also don’t have a problem in my area with fire ants, just tons of small black ones.
We have such a problem with fire ants here in southeast NC. Even when it’s dry and it seems like they are gone (yeah, right) as soon as it rains, they rush to the surface and mounds appear everywhere.
Looks the same as what I'd see here in Northern California (minus the fire ants). Sigh, compost is great but a lot of work to keep the balance of moisture right, the brown to green ratio right, etc. But free rich soil is worth it.
I'm in South-central Texas. I don't turn my compost piles, but I do keep them moist, and there are no fire ants. I use whole leaves, bedding, manure, rotten logs etc so air can get in and it breaks down nicely, but takes over a year. I don't have a tractor so that's why I don't turn them. We have fire ants all over, but maybe all the moisture from frequent watering keeps them away.
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While your orange oil method is good for killing fire ants, dousing that huge mound with gasoline and setting it on fire would be highly satisfying, too. I am sure that Everett and Ollie would agree.😁
I just dismantled my passive compost pile. The fire ants weren't a big problem but I had a mouse family that had taken up residence there. It all went into lower layers of my raised beds. We do have a terrible problem with fire ants all over the raised beds and in the yard. I have tried putting boiling water on them, displacing them with a shovel, spraying them out with a steady stream from the hose. I can't quite get them gone.
I am in Texas northeast of Houston. I passive compost. Ants have never taken over like that. Everything decomposes. We average 50 inches of rain a year here so it gets plenty of moisture. I never turn it. I just make sure I put a healthy balance of greens and browns. Never too much of any one thing.
I feel you. I'm in North East Texas and those darn fireants are a big problem. Essentially when growing Organic. Even infest my potted veggies and citrus trees. Even the in ground trees. Have lost some from ant damage. Have to stay vigilant with it. Take care...... Jeff
WOW! TX definitely goes big when it comes to fire ants! That’s one thing I do not miss about TX. I’d be all over it with boiling water! Get that pile hot again and seriously take care of those things before they kill someone or something!
I'm glad you tried your chickens! Why do they not eat them??? Maybe you feed them too well. I wonder if they'd eat them if they were dead. Like, attract them into a container and then collect / harvest them daily... We gotta figure out this ant problem. :D I have heard that you have to make sure to have "green and brown" layered in there - green being fresh stuff recently dead and brown being things that will need to be watered. And I know you've heard of huglekultur (probably misspelled). All that "brown" stuff is good at soaking up and holding water in if you bury it and cover it with a layer of soil that you plant stuff in. No need to turn. Turning is awesome, but do learn the ways not to have to turn in case you ever need to switch gears on your techniques due to space or age or dwindling population if all the kids start moving out. Why they'd want to move out, I have no idea, but kids tend to do that. :D Nature layers and forgets about it, and some argue that it's the only way to have all the microbes and fungus and such that you need. I have room in my heart for both methods, because God put us here to work the land - He just made sure to have a back-up plan for until we could get around to all the spots. You know it's great when His back-up plan is better than our best laid plans, so when it's called for, know how to emulate it. (Green, brown, green, brown, green, brown...) For my compost, I have all my sticks and logs and paper feed bags, etc. on the bottom, and all my rabbit manure and landscaping waste (if the rabbits can't handle it) on top. Once the logs and sticks are buried, I start a new heap of logs and sticks until the first compost heap is done cooking. Then I dig out all my dirt for my gardens, take any leftover sticks and logs to the new sticks and logs pile and then start covering all of that with a new heap. Once all the sticks and logs are gone from the first heap, I dig more rich soft dirt out which makes a hole, which is where I start putting the 3rd start of sticks and logs once the 2nd heap's sticks and logs get buried. Flip flop, flip flop. It gets turned, but over a 6-12 month period. When I need to bleed my water hose of hot water, it takes about a full minute to get it all out. I use it to 1) sterilize a rabbit cage (coccidia is killed at just 104 degrees and Texas water hoses left in the sun tops that), or 2) blast ant beds - no need to haul boiling water around, or 3) water my compost heaps. No matter what, I never waste a good 100 ft long hose full of near boiling hot water. Of course, hot water fries any green in my compost, turning it instantly to to brown. That's not the end of the world, but the green is harder to come by than the brown, so I try to preserve it by aiming high and letting it rain it down merely warm, or mist, which takes longer than one minute, but worth it not to fry my green. I realize for you - and everyone - it will be slightly different, but it's good to keep the reasons in mind as you adjust to larger or smaller scales.
Haha, nope! Did you see it in the video? Chickens won’t go close to fire ants. This has been opened since I published the video and they still haven’t gone in there. Maybe I need to raise some ant eaters. 🤣
We live in Florida and my husband kills fire ants with a propane torch. He keeps them pretty much under control
Red ants do not like cinnamon 💜🙏 Blessings from Maine 💜🙏
Good lesson.
Here in Humboldt (nor California) we have done compost piles/bins that we have filled and forgotten about, it so wet that nothing but black dirt is left come spring. We also don’t have a problem in my area with fire ants, just tons of small black ones.
Nice!!!
We have such a problem with fire ants here in southeast NC. Even when it’s dry and it seems like they are gone (yeah, right) as soon as it rains, they rush to the surface and mounds appear everywhere.
Looks the same as what I'd see here in Northern California (minus the fire ants). Sigh, compost is great but a lot of work to keep the balance of moisture right, the brown to green ratio right, etc. But free rich soil is worth it.
I'm in South-central Texas. I don't turn my compost piles, but I do keep them moist, and there are no fire ants. I use whole leaves, bedding, manure, rotten logs etc so air can get in and it breaks down nicely, but takes over a year. I don't have a tractor so that's why I don't turn them. We have fire ants all over, but maybe all the moisture from frequent watering keeps them away.
Could be!
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While your orange oil method is good for killing fire ants, dousing that huge mound with gasoline and setting it on fire would be highly satisfying, too. I am sure that Everett and Ollie would agree.😁
Fire ants can be killed by pouring boiling water into their nest until it floors out dead ants
I just dismantled my passive compost pile. The fire ants weren't a big problem but I had a mouse family that had taken up residence there. It all went into lower layers of my raised beds. We do have a terrible problem with fire ants all over the raised beds and in the yard. I have tried putting boiling water on them, displacing them with a shovel, spraying them out with a steady stream from the hose. I can't quite get them gone.
I am in Texas northeast of Houston. I passive compost. Ants have never taken over like that. Everything decomposes. We average 50 inches of rain a year here so it gets plenty of moisture. I never turn it. I just make sure I put a healthy balance of greens and browns. Never too much of any one thing.
Correct, Houston is a different climate. It’s weird and almost like subtropical.
Born and raised in Houston all my life. I guess it’s the humidity.
@@BetterTogetherLife Yes. It is subtropical. We also live on Lake Houston. Moisture everywhere. Doesn't take much to get things to decay here.
Wow that’s a long time to leave it 😂
I feel you. I'm in North East Texas and those darn fireants are a big problem. Essentially when growing Organic. Even infest my potted veggies and citrus trees. Even the in ground trees. Have lost some from ant damage. Have to stay vigilant with it. Take care...... Jeff
💯!!!! Thank you Jeff!
He is developing the Texas ascent😂😂
Developing??? Bro I was born in Houston Texas and have never lived anywhere but Texas.
What do you mean “developing”??? 🤣🤣
@@BetterTogetherLife I didn’t know that
What part of tx are you all in
WOW! TX definitely goes big when it comes to fire ants! That’s one thing I do not miss about TX. I’d be all over it with boiling water! Get that pile hot again and seriously take care of those things before they kill someone or something!
Yup. It’s not on the list, this thing is insane!!!
Use a flame weeder on those fire ants....lol
I'm glad you tried your chickens! Why do they not eat them??? Maybe you feed them too well. I wonder if they'd eat them if they were dead. Like, attract them into a container and then collect / harvest them daily... We gotta figure out this ant problem. :D
I have heard that you have to make sure to have "green and brown" layered in there - green being fresh stuff recently dead and brown being things that will need to be watered. And I know you've heard of huglekultur (probably misspelled). All that "brown" stuff is good at soaking up and holding water in if you bury it and cover it with a layer of soil that you plant stuff in. No need to turn. Turning is awesome, but do learn the ways not to have to turn in case you ever need to switch gears on your techniques due to space or age or dwindling population if all the kids start moving out. Why they'd want to move out, I have no idea, but kids tend to do that. :D Nature layers and forgets about it, and some argue that it's the only way to have all the microbes and fungus and such that you need. I have room in my heart for both methods, because God put us here to work the land - He just made sure to have a back-up plan for until we could get around to all the spots. You know it's great when His back-up plan is better than our best laid plans, so when it's called for, know how to emulate it. (Green, brown, green, brown, green, brown...)
For my compost, I have all my sticks and logs and paper feed bags, etc. on the bottom, and all my rabbit manure and landscaping waste (if the rabbits can't handle it) on top. Once the logs and sticks are buried, I start a new heap of logs and sticks until the first compost heap is done cooking. Then I dig out all my dirt for my gardens, take any leftover sticks and logs to the new sticks and logs pile and then start covering all of that with a new heap. Once all the sticks and logs are gone from the first heap, I dig more rich soft dirt out which makes a hole, which is where I start putting the 3rd start of sticks and logs once the 2nd heap's sticks and logs get buried. Flip flop, flip flop. It gets turned, but over a 6-12 month period. When I need to bleed my water hose of hot water, it takes about a full minute to get it all out. I use it to 1) sterilize a rabbit cage (coccidia is killed at just 104 degrees and Texas water hoses left in the sun tops that), or 2) blast ant beds - no need to haul boiling water around, or 3) water my compost heaps. No matter what, I never waste a good 100 ft long hose full of near boiling hot water. Of course, hot water fries any green in my compost, turning it instantly to to brown. That's not the end of the world, but the green is harder to come by than the brown, so I try to preserve it by aiming high and letting it rain it down merely warm, or mist, which takes longer than one minute, but worth it not to fry my green. I realize for you - and everyone - it will be slightly different, but it's good to keep the reasons in mind as you adjust to larger or smaller scales.
Well, there goes my lazy compost hope :)
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Maybe it will work for you!! ??? Lol
I never turn my compost and have great results. It depends on the climate for sure but I only watered it once in a while and that's it
turn the chickens loose on this. They will clean it up asap.
Haha, nope! Did you see it in the video? Chickens won’t go close to fire ants. This has been opened since I published the video and they still haven’t gone in there.
Maybe I need to raise some ant eaters. 🤣
Time for a bonfire/ant roast
Yyyyyyyup!
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