They were emerging from somewhere in the foreclosed house next door by the hundreds. Of course we caught as many as we could and fed them to the chickens! They are probably carpenter ants. Ants don't usually have wings of course, but these are the new generation of queens heading out to find a mate and establish a new nest. They will lose their wings soon since they won't be needing them in the nest.
In case you are interested, our homemade potting mix consisted of:
3 parts vermicompost
3 parts vermiculite
5 parts peat moss
1 part tube sand from an old bag in the back yard
Check back later and I'll let you know how our plants did in it!
The mix worked out really well. We transplanted most of our starts into it. Unfortunately we had used it all up by the time they were big enough to transplant again so we made up a new mix. In the new mix we substituted composted manure for vermicompost, but otherwise it was pretty much the same.
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