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Ants, I hate them.
Hi All,
Some time ago I wrote about my ant problem. I have tried the boric acid with sugar and water one poster gave me a recipe for. Although it did attract an ant or two, it didn't do a thing to solve my ant problem. (This did work for my mother's ant problem's though) Anyway, I still have ants in my raised beds. They are crawling over all my vegetables and flowers. I have been keeping a look out for aphids as last year that seemed to be their main purpose for being in my garden. It has started again. I don't have any aphids yet, but I do have lots of ants. I also seem to have 3 or 4 different kinds of ants. Almost all are black. Some are so small you can just barely see them, while others look like regular picnic ants. I live in TN but also had this same problem in GA. One of the ant species, seems to live in the roots of my plants, building up a mound around the stem, especially on my Cosmo's in the cutting bed. When this happened in GA, I discovered that the ants had made a tunnel into the stem. This same thing happened to me last year, with some Sun flowers I planted. As you would guess this eventually kills the plant, makes the stem very stumpy and large, while the flowers are small and weak. These ants make little mounds of dirt everywhere, but I can't seem to find any one source of their nest. I have tried pellet's that say they are for killing snails, slugs and ants. I have tired the boric solution, I have tried boiling water. On the cutting garden I have tried systemic poison. I have tried Seven dust. Has anyone else had this problem? Can you offer more idea's on how to rid the garden of the ants? I am at my wits end. TIA Oriole |
Ants, I hate them.
Oriole wrote: Hi All, Some time ago I wrote about my ant problem. I have tried the boric acid with sugar and water one poster gave me a recipe for. Although it did attract an ant or two, it didn't do a thing to solve my ant problem. (This did work for my mother's ant problem's though) Anyway, I still have ants in my raised beds. They are crawling over all my vegetables and flowers. I have been keeping a look out for aphids as last year that seemed to be their main purpose for being in my garden. It has started again. I don't have any aphids yet, but I do have lots of ants. I also seem to have 3 or 4 different kinds of ants. Almost all are black. Some are so small you can just barely see them, while others look like regular picnic ants. I live in TN but also had this same problem in GA. One of the ant species, seems to live in the roots of my plants, building up a mound around the stem, especially on my Cosmo's in the cutting bed. When this happened in GA, I discovered that the ants had made a tunnel into the stem. This same thing happened to me last year, with some Sun flowers I planted. As you would guess this eventually kills the plant, makes the stem very stumpy and large, while the flowers are small and weak. These ants make little mounds of dirt everywhere, but I can't seem to find any one source of their nest. I have tried pellet's that say they are for killing snails, slugs and ants. I have tired the boric solution, I have tried boiling water. On the cutting garden I have tried systemic poison. I have tried Seven dust. Has anyone else had this problem? Can you offer more idea's on how to rid the garden of the ants? I am at my wits end. TIA Oriole You could use Diazinon granules. It is not organic though. I sprinkle a small band around my house to keep out crickets, earwigs, ants and other critters. It is toxic to pets and birds until it is washed into the ground so make sure you follow the directions. I never used it on my garden, but the bag has directions for putting it around veggies. |
Ants, I hate them.
Can't guarantee this will work, but it seemed to make my baby ants
disappear. They were like little armies in a line going from my lawn, across my concrete patio, and under the step into my house and across my counters. It was very annoying. Ant traps didn't work and you could only spray with Raid so many times. I read an article that said to put down or sprinkle uncooked grits on the soil where they were crossing. They take the food back to their homes and eat it. Once ingested, it puffs up and makes the ants explode. I know you're probably laughing, but mine disappeared after sprinkling some around my patio. You'll never know until you try. Good luck. Penny Zone 7b - North Carolina "Oriole" wrote in message ... Hi All, Some time ago I wrote about my ant problem. I have tried the boric acid with sugar and water one poster gave me a recipe for. Although it did attract an ant or two, it didn't do a thing to solve my ant problem. (This did work for my mother's ant problem's though) Anyway, I still have ants in my raised beds. They are crawling over all my vegetables and flowers. I have been keeping a look out for aphids as last year that seemed to be their main purpose for being in my garden. It has started again. I don't have any aphids yet, but I do have lots of ants. I also seem to have 3 or 4 different kinds of ants. Almost all are black. Some are so small you can just barely see them, while others look like regular picnic ants. I live in TN but also had this same problem in GA. One of the ant species, seems to live in the roots of my plants, building up a mound around the stem, especially on my Cosmo's in the cutting bed. When this happened in GA, I discovered that the ants had made a tunnel into the stem. This same thing happened to me last year, with some Sun flowers I planted. As you would guess this eventually kills the plant, makes the stem very stumpy and large, while the flowers are small and weak. These ants make little mounds of dirt everywhere, but I can't seem to find any one source of their nest. I have tried pellet's that say they are for killing snails, slugs and ants. I have tired the boric solution, I have tried boiling water. On the cutting garden I have tried systemic poison. I have tried Seven dust. Has anyone else had this problem? Can you offer more idea's on how to rid the garden of the ants? I am at my wits end. TIA Oriole |
Ants, I hate them.
"Oriole"
I have been keeping a look out for aphids as last year that seemed to be their main purpose for being in my garden. As far the aphids go, I had great success last year using hot pepper wax. I also had an ant problem, they would eat their way into some of my peppers while crawling all over my plants. They didn't seem to do a whole lot of damage though. |
Ants, I hate them.
Thanks, I never heard of this will give it a try. At least it is something I
can use around the vegetables. O "Penny Morgan" wrote in message om... Can't guarantee this will work, but it seemed to make my baby ants disappear. They were like little armies in a line going from my lawn, across my concrete patio, and under the step into my house and across my counters. It was very annoying. Ant traps didn't work and you could only spray with Raid so many times. I read an article that said to put down or sprinkle uncooked grits on the soil where they were crossing. They take the food back to their homes and eat it. Once ingested, it puffs up and makes the ants explode. I know you're probably laughing, but mine disappeared after sprinkling some around my patio. You'll never know until you try. Good luck. Penny Zone 7b - North Carolina "Oriole" wrote in message ... Hi All, Some time ago I wrote about my ant problem. I have tried the boric acid with sugar and water one poster gave me a recipe for. Although it did attract an ant or two, it didn't do a thing to solve my ant problem. (This did work for my mother's ant problem's though) Anyway, I still have ants in my raised beds. They are crawling over all my vegetables and flowers. I have been keeping a look out for aphids as last year that seemed to be their main purpose for being in my garden. It has started again. I don't have any aphids yet, but I do have lots of ants. I also seem to have 3 or 4 different kinds of ants. Almost all are black. Some are so small you can just barely see them, while others look like regular picnic ants. I live in TN but also had this same problem in GA. One of the ant species, seems to live in the roots of my plants, building up a mound around the stem, especially on my Cosmo's in the cutting bed. When this happened in GA, I discovered that the ants had made a tunnel into the stem. This same thing happened to me last year, with some Sun flowers I planted. As you would guess this eventually kills the plant, makes the stem very stumpy and large, while the flowers are small and weak. These ants make little mounds of dirt everywhere, but I can't seem to find any one source of their nest. I have tried pellet's that say they are for killing snails, slugs and ants. I have tired the boric solution, I have tried boiling water. On the cutting garden I have tried systemic poison. I have tried Seven dust. Has anyone else had this problem? Can you offer more idea's on how to rid the garden of the ants? I am at my wits end. TIA Oriole |
Ants, I hate them.
I don't have aphids without the ants. Right now I just have the ants, but I
know they will so be farming aphids on my stuff. I would like to stop the ants before they bring on the aphids, but if I can't I will give this a try. Thanks O "KK from NJ" wrote in message ... "Oriole" I have been keeping a look out for aphids as last year that seemed to be their main purpose for being in my garden. As far the aphids go, I had great success last year using hot pepper wax. I also had an ant problem, they would eat their way into some of my peppers while crawling all over my plants. They didn't seem to do a whole lot of damage though. |
Ants, I hate them.
KK from NJ wrote:
"Oriole" I have been keeping a look out for aphids as last year that seemed to be their main purpose for being in my garden. As far the aphids go, I had great success last year using hot pepper wax. I also had an ant problem, they would eat their way into some of my peppers while crawling all over my plants. They didn't seem to do a whole lot of damage though. What is "hot pepper wax' please? The aphids have had a feast on our rose bushes. I can deal with the ants but the aphids have got my dander up. And soon to follow will be those lovely little squash bugsgrrrrrrrrrr. I know we'll fight a daily battle and they will win againdouble grrrrrrrrr! -- John S. DeBoo |
Ants, I hate them.
I read an article that said to put down or sprinkle uncooked grits on the
soil where they were crossing. They take the food back to their homes and eat it. Once ingested, it puffs up and makes the ants explode. Actually there are commercial ant poisons that are granulated and meant to be taken down below by the ants as "food"; the queen takes a bite or two, and bingo...no more colony. Usually takes a day or two to work in my experience. |
Ants, I hate them.
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Ants, I hate them.
"Oriole" wrote in message ... Has anyone else had this problem? Can you offer more idea's on how to rid the garden of the ants? I am at my wits end. TIA Oriole We have a couple of raised beds. We covered them last fall to help keep out the weed seeds. When we took the plastic off this spring one of the beds had ants. I had an Enforcer ant bait left and took it out there and just set it in the bed. The next day all the ants were gone. I get the Enforcer ant bait at an Ace Hardware store. It says on the package that both grease eating and sweet eating ants will eat it. So far I haven't had any ants that didn't eat it. And they have never come back! Kathy |
Ants, I hate them.
I heard to try grits too and I did. I don't remember if it worked. I
moved back to California since then and haven't tried it out here yet. Ant baits worked pretty good. Wish I could remember what kind I bought because the ones I got this last time haven't worked. It wasn't Raid's brand. Those don't attract nothing not even flies. Oh and for flying insects I do recommend yellow sticky traps and fly paper. I have it all over my garden and I have to put in new ones every week since they work so well. I also use powdered milk in my hose-end sprayer to keep veggie wilts and fungus at bay on the soil and the plants. Works pretty good because usually by now my squash are shriveled and dying from a fungus or disease. And I have more baby fruit on this one plant than I've ever seen on any of my past plants. Try it out! Doesn't work on ants though. Too bad! Carla Goodloe "Penny Morgan" wrote in message . com... Can't guarantee this will work, but it seemed to make my baby ants disappear. They were like little armies in a line going from my lawn, across my concrete patio, and under the step into my house and across my counters. It was very annoying. Ant traps didn't work and you could only spray with Raid so many times. I read an article that said to put down or sprinkle uncooked grits on the soil where they were crossing. They take the food back to their homes and eat it. Once ingested, it puffs up and makes the ants explode. I know you're probably laughing, but mine disappeared after sprinkling some around my patio. You'll never know until you try. Good luck. Penny Zone 7b - North Carolina "Oriole" wrote in message ... Hi All, Some time ago I wrote about my ant problem. I have tried the boric acid with sugar and water one poster gave me a recipe for. Although it did attract an ant or two, it didn't do a thing to solve my ant problem. (This did work for my mother's ant problem's though) Anyway, I still have ants in my raised beds. They are crawling over all my vegetables and flowers. I have been keeping a look out for aphids as last year that seemed to be their main purpose for being in my garden. It has started again. I don't have any aphids yet, but I do have lots of ants. I also seem to have 3 or 4 different kinds of ants. Almost all are black. Some are so small you can just barely see them, while others look like regular picnic ants. I live in TN but also had this same problem in GA. One of the ant species, seems to live in the roots of my plants, building up a mound around the stem, especially on my Cosmo's in the cutting bed. When this happened in GA, I discovered that the ants had made a tunnel into the stem. This same thing happened to me last year, with some Sun flowers I planted. As you would guess this eventually kills the plant, makes the stem very stumpy and large, while the flowers are small and weak. These ants make little mounds of dirt everywhere, but I can't seem to find any one source of their nest. I have tried pellet's that say they are for killing snails, slugs and ants. I have tired the boric solution, I have tried boiling water. On the cutting garden I have tried systemic poison. I have tried Seven dust. Has anyone else had this problem? Can you offer more idea's on how to rid the garden of the ants? I am at my wits end. TIA Oriole |
Ants, I hate them.
Problem I have with this is that you can put out all that granule
stuff on every single ant hill and there are 5 others that show up a few days later to take over the area. This happens alot in the south. I made some ant hills move out of my Alabama yard by sticking a water hose down into the middle of the hill. Needless to say, you cackle with glee to see all those eggs and larva laying on top of the ground dying from the hot sunlight. Did I mention to do this at noon? The remaining ants move to a newer spot usually away from the house. I had one hill where I was watching out the window and the grass seemed to be walking. Well turns out the ants were climbing up the grass and jumping into the wind to get a good flight pattern going. They were doing some type of mating thing. Then they'd go off and become queens in another hills. If you catch ants doing this, spray the area with hot soapy water before they can send too many off into the air. They weren't fire ants though so that's a good thing but highly annoying to watch. Carla (Anonymo421) wrote in message ... I read an article that said to put down or sprinkle uncooked grits on the soil where they were crossing. They take the food back to their homes and eat it. Once ingested, it puffs up and makes the ants explode. Actually there are commercial ant poisons that are granulated and meant to be taken down below by the ants as "food"; the queen takes a bite or two, and bingo...no more colony. Usually takes a day or two to work in my experience. |
Ants, I hate them.
Problem I have with this is that you can put out all that granule
stuff on every single ant hill and there are 5 others that show up a few days later to take over the area. This happens alot in the south. I made some ant hills move out of my Alabama yard by sticking a water hose down into the middle of the hill. Needless to say, you cackle with glee to see all those eggs and larva laying on top of the ground dying from the hot sunlight. Did I mention to do this at noon? The remaining ants move to a newer spot usually away from the house. I had one hill where I was watching out the window and the grass seemed to be walking. Well turns out the ants were climbing up the grass and jumping into the wind to get a good flight pattern going. They were doing some type of mating thing. Then they'd go off and become queens in another hills. If you catch ants doing this, spray the area with hot soapy water before they can send too many off into the air. They weren't fire ants though so that's a good thing but highly annoying to watch. Carla (Anonymo421) wrote in message ... I read an article that said to put down or sprinkle uncooked grits on the soil where they were crossing. They take the food back to their homes and eat it. Once ingested, it puffs up and makes the ants explode. Actually there are commercial ant poisons that are granulated and meant to be taken down below by the ants as "food"; the queen takes a bite or two, and bingo...no more colony. Usually takes a day or two to work in my experience. |
Ants, I hate them.
Carla wrote:
snip top posted stuff I don't know if it works because we don't have ants (knock on wood). But a friend of mine swears that if you sprinkle cinnamon down, the ants don't want to cross it and leave. Dunno personally though. -- Steve |
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