"Keith Hampson" wrote in message
...
please excuse me but I am totally new to gardening, I have just bought a
house so starting fro scratch, but would like to help I can get.

the problems I have with the garden are as follows:

1. the lawn last summer was covered in ants, making it very annoying when we
sat in our garden, how can I stop the ants this year? maybe put poison down?


It is unlikely that you will ever eliminate all the ants. If you have a plague
of them, and if you can locate their nest, then you can use an ant poison (buy
from garden centres, etc.), or pour boiling water over the nest (careful - do
not pour any on yourself). This will reduce the number of ants, but you will
have to learn to accept that your garden will always contain some ants.

Bevan