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.

Many thanks in advance
Phil

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.

In article ,
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.

Why do you want to? They will do negligible harm, and are important
to the garden's ecology.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.

(Nick Maclaren) wrote in
:

In article ,
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.

Why do you want to? They will do negligible harm, and are important
to the garden's ecology.


Well, if his ants are like mine they will be eating his strawberries!

No suggestions from anyone yet what to do about my ant-riddled berries...

Victoria

In article 0,
Victoria Clare wrote:

Well, if his ants are like mine they will be eating his strawberries!

No suggestions from anyone yet what to do about my ant-riddled berries...

Eat them?


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.

In article . 10,
Victoria Clare writes:
| (Nick Maclaren) wrote in news:bbckh9$fdg$1
| @pegasus.csx.cam.ac.uk:
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| No suggestions from anyone yet what to do about my ant-riddled berries...
|
| Eat them?
|
| Ew, I don't think so! They are absolutely riddled with tiny tunnels, which
| are in constant active use, so they would be a bit crunchy!

Probably :-)

| We are not talking a few ants here, and although I am happy to eat slightly
| pecked apples or strawberries with a bit missing, I do draw the line at
| consuming the happy diners simultaneously.

They certainly wouldn't do you any harm, and would be useful protein,
but I share your wimpishness :-)


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.

(Nick Maclaren) wrote in news:bbckh9$fdg$1
@pegasus.csx.cam.ac.uk:

No suggestions from anyone yet what to do about my ant-riddled berries...

Eat them?

Ew, I don't think so! They are absolutely riddled with tiny tunnels, which
are in constant active use, so they would be a bit crunchy!

We are not talking a few ants here, and although I am happy to eat slightly
pecked apples or strawberries with a bit missing, I do draw the line at
consuming the happy diners simultaneously.