phil thompson wrote:
Can some please help, i've recently stated gardening and planted some
tomatoe plants and a strawberry plant in the border only to find a massive
ant infestation how do i get rid of them, apart from pouring boiling water
into the nest.

I've bought some of those Raid ant bait white plastic thingys. You leave
them (indoors or out) where ants are about. Presumably they have some
nice tasty sticky stuff inside which is poisonous, but it doesn't kill
the ants straight away. Instead there's a delayed reaction so they have
time to take it back to the nest and feed it to the queen, thus
potentially killing the whole colony (or something). I like it because
I'm lazy and it has the ants running round doing all the work. No idea
if it works.