In this video tricia shares her tips on controlling ants in the house and in the garden.
Ant control in garden organic.
All deter ants and if you pour coffee grounds directly on an anthill they will eat the coffee grounds and implode.
A 50 50 mixture of borax and sugar will help to control ants.
When ants are under attack some ants will gather a few eggs and move to another location so often all you achieve is for them to move their nest somewhere else in which case unless they become a pest again leave them in peace.
Flour baby powder will keep ants from reaching your plants ants will not cross the powder so circle your plants with it.
Sugar is what the ants are after and they wont be able to tell it has been mixed with borax.
Reapply as needed or after a rain.
Crush up some chalk.
Ants also help to speed decomposition of organic matter such as leaves straw and even other dead insects.
There are lots of organic garden pest control deterrent for ants but keep applying and changing them because they are determined little blighters indeed.
You can easily spot ants in the garden when aphids are tiny and sometimes hard to spot.
Baking soda is poisonous to ants spinkle it around your plants to ensure ants will stay away.
10 ways to kill ants organically.
You can use coffee grounds chili powder cinnamon peppermint or black pepper.
Borax is poisonous to ants and pretty soon the ant colony will be no more.
Ants will not cross chalk lines according to golden harvest organics.