I was watering my plants this morning and I noticed that ants are eating away my chile piquin plant. Which by the way is loaded with chiles! I love spicy food, the hotter the better. I have been eating spicy food since I was four years old! With every meal my mother would cut up a jalapeno with salt and I enjoyed the tingling hot feeling it left on my tongue.

Okay, I went off the subject. I was upset because the ants love eating my plant. So I mentioned the problem to my mother and she gave me a wonderful trick that would solve this nasty problem. She said to sprinkle a small mound of grits around the base of an anthill. Each ant will carry along one grit at a time and eat it afterwards once they settled in their home. After the ant drinks some water, the grit will expand and causing the ant's stomach to burst.

I was very pleased with the results and now my plant is ant free!

Benefits for eating hot peppers: helps with gettig rid of headaches, arthiritis, and weight loss