ANTS...we have soooooo many in one of our garden beds. The little !**^$@ BIT!?
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Buy a product called sudsy ammonia. You can find it in your laundry soap aisle at the supermarket. It is not a window spray. It's a liquid and very concentrated. You mix it with water, enough so that it has a very strong odor, than sprinkle it on your garden bed. It destroys the ants sense of smell and they'll leave the area. I had them in an onion patch, actually eating the onion sets as fast as I planted them! One application got rid of them for the whole summer.
Other answers:
Boraxo and sugar will keep them kill them in the house as for outside gardens get a plant safe spray from Lowes/Wal-Mart or your local garden center they have what you need personally I spray mine with soapy water or I buy 7 bug powder
Boraxo and sugar will keep them kill them in the house as for outside gardens get a plant safe spray from Lowes/Wal-Mart or your local garden center they have what you need personally I spray mine with soapy water or I buy 7 bug powder
Sprinkle crushed pepper seeds, dry grits, or cinnamon around the perimeter of the garden, or grow spearmint they hate it for some reason, they also hate "Bounce" fabric softener sheets (works for bees too) or try this recipe I found
4 to 5 tbsp. cornmeal
3 tbsp. bacon grease
3 tbsp. baking powder
3 packages of yeast (I would opt for the rapid rise)
Mix cornmeal & bacon grease into a paste, then add baking powder &
yeast. Dab the gooey mix on the insides of jar lids, and
set them near the ant hills.
When ants eat this mixture, they swell up and go to the big ant hill in
the sky
I also found this on a page recently when I was looking for ways to get rid of ants
"An old lady said she had taken a shovel, and took a shovel full of ants and dirt from one ant hill, and put on another ant hill. She did this all around the yard, swapping ants from one hill to another. The ants had a huge ant fight, and killed each other out. I have seen different ants fight with each other. It would be worth a try."
pour beer in and around the garden. it repels them. also, pour coca cola in a bowl beside the garden. they'll leave to get into the bowl of coke. sprinkle a little roach powder (poison) inside the bowl of coke. They'll go into the bowl and poison themselves if not carry it back to the nest.