DE spritzed on a few plants the ants have been visiting heavily, and instant grits scattered where I want to kill fire ants.

I took a large under-planter dish and filled it with water in the veggie garden, then set a brick (they have four or five holes to help grip the mortar) in the middle, stapled my trichogramma wasp card to the stake again and stuck that upright from a hole in the brick. I have yet to see ants voluntarily swim.

The cannas that I hated in the front of my front porch are going gangbusters at the side of the house where there was nothing else growing and where I transplanted them. A hummingbird and I startled each other this morning as I hosed the remainder of the dry molasses off of the leaves from a few days ago. I broadcast it when it looked like rain (it was sprinkling enough that the molasses stuck to the leaves). They are robust and beginning to bloom. Once a weed in front yard, they're lovely at the side of the house!

Janie, Martha Stewart Living in the July 2008 issue features a deep shade garden, including a flower called Astilbe, hardy in zones 3 - 8. You might want to peruse a copy in the check out stand next trip through the grocery store.

SRS