Ants are large and small, black and red, some live at home - house ants, others - they settle in kitchen gardens, in greenhouses and in garden cottages. How to deal with ants if they pester.
Let's talk about the means of fighting the ants, get rid of them as quickly as possible and take the ants out of the house and garden plots.
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How to deal with ants in the garden and the garden?
Basically, many gardeners and truck farmers consider ants to be pests. And in the struggle with ants are often used strong poisons. Nevertheless, you can cope with the invasion of ants in gentle, gentle ways. Or simply - move the ant hill away from the site.
Why do gardeners dislike ants?
There are many species of ants, black garden ants are more likely to settle in orchards and gardens. Their main source of food is aphids on trees and shrubs. Aphids isolate an important food for ants - a sweet drop, a sticky liquid, abundantly secreted not only by aphids, but also by chervets, leaf blocks.
For a stable source of carbohydrates, ants contrive not only to "graze" aphids, but also to plant them, spread them along trees and bushes.
Garden pests of aphids for ants - the main, although not the only source of carbohydrates. The ants are flogged with floral nectar, creeping in flowers, collecting nectar, insects not only pollinate them, but also damage them. Ripe sweet fruits - pears, apples, too, attract the ants.
Some gardeners claim that swarms underground passages, ants damage plant roots. But others are sure that there is no damage to the roots from the ant tunnels. On the contrary, ants constantly loosen the soil and ensure the supply of oxygen.
How useful are the ants in the garden and the garden?
Carbohydrates are part of the ant diet. Ants also need proteins, without which the colony of ants will not survive. Animal food is supplied by the ants to the uterus and the larvae are nourished.
The source of protein food is hunting and gathering. Daily ants explore the occupied territory in search of other insects, both dead and alive, most of which are garden pests. Destroying various caterpillars, larvae of leaf beetles and bark beetles, ants bring tangible benefits to the orchards and vegetable gardens.
How to deal with ants?
Ants not only harm, but also help the garden and the garden. So completely get rid of them and derive completely wrong, and even useless. The free territory will be occupied by other ants. Perhaps, ants of a different kind, which I will bother the villa site even more.
Two ways can minimize the harm caused by ants, without compromising their useful performance:
- distraction of ants' attention( switching);
- restraining the development of the colony.
Aphids for ants are a source of food. Less food - fewer ants in the garden and vegetable garden. Therefore, the control of aphids will reduce the number of ants.
Ants will still try to restore the colony's number. Like any herd, aphids need "pastures".For a gardener, it is important that these pastures do not become cultivated plants. To divert from them "shepherds" it is possible, planting near the anthill plants-siderates. Fodder beans, sweet clover, alfalfa. This will not only improve the soil, enrich it with nitrogen, but also serve the ants as convenient pastures.
Herds of aphids supply carbohydrates to ants. But insects can get them from plants. For example, each leaf of a castor oil plant - an oilseed, medicinal and ornamental garden plant - has non-flowering nectaries that constantly emit a sweet juice. If the juice is enough to ants.
Fully satisfy the form requirement for carbohydrates with sugar syrup. In order to rid the ants of the "bad habit" of breeding aphids, it is sufficient to place drinkers near the anthills and regularly pour in them a 1: 1 aqueous solution of sugar.
If the "soft" methods of restraining the ant expansion did not work, then even then you should not poison the insects, you can simply evict them from the site.
Closer to the evening, the anthill house is carefully excavated and taken out of the garden.
Work is carried out in rubber gloves, previously lubricating the cuff with unrefined sunflower oil. The same oil is applied to the edges of the bucket, where the anthill is placed. Fragrant oil is not pleasant to insects, it will protect your hands from ant-biting bites and will not allow the ants to run away from the bucket.
An anthill is raked with a hand or a scoop before detecting ant eggs. They are the goal of an ant-existence, and insects evicted from the site can return if the eggs have remained in their original place. The ants and eggs, together with the soil in the bucket, are taken to a suitable place, where they will not cause trouble to the gardener.
It's best to do the relocation in late spring or early summer, while the anthill is not too big. It is not always possible to completely get rid of ants by this method. But in any case, the number of insects on the site will significantly decrease.
How to get rid of ants in the garden and at home
Every month a horticulturist and gardener plans to protect the garden from various pests. Some pests are active in April-May, others - in June, but the ants are harmed all summer. It would seem, what harm can an ant do? But the summer resident always asks the question: how to get rid of the ants at home and in the garden, how to drive the ants out of the greenhouse, how to destroy the ants under the trees? Why do ants interfere with gardening and gardening and how to deal with them - consider together the traditional and chemical methods of fighting the ants. Why do we need to get rid of ants and how to poison them?
Why it is necessary to fight with ants in the garden and garden
The fact is that ants arrange their anthills on beds and in greenhouses, undermine plants and can even cause the death of a tomato or cucumber bush. In the orchard, ants graze their aphids - aphids. They actively spread aphids along the crown of trees and bushes, bringing harmful insects to the most tasty young twigs. Also ants protect their herds of aphids from ladybirds, their larvae, and also from other pests.
Sometimes gardeners may not know why they die and shrink strawberries or a young seedling. The cause may be anthills arranged by these insects under the roots of plants. Look closely at your bushes and trees, and if you find ants, begin the fight immediately.
If the summer resident does not fight the ants, then the decline and even the loss of the crop is guaranteed!
Ways to combat ants
Than to poison ants in the garden and at home? We will offer you folk and chemical remedies for combating these pests.
Folk remedies against ants
The first of the popular methods - sharp and unpleasant for the ant family smells. These are grasses: tomato leaves, leaves of elderberry, sprigs of wild mint, cloves and anise. Do not tolerate ants and the smells of some( often spoiled) products: lemon, herring, garlic. But herbs, like products, do not last long. As soon as the smell disappears, the ants again return to the chosen place on your beds or under the trees.
To protect trees from ants, it is possible to impose hunky adhesive belts on the trunks. But the self-denying ants will follow the corpses of their fellow tribesmen and quickly "master" the glue belt.
In this case, more effective are the foil skirts fixed on the tree trunk and on the main skeletal branches. Sweet and poisoned bait. Can be used to combat the ant bait. For example, to collect sweet water in a jar and the ants will sink in it. Will only periodically get rid of drowned people.
Some truck farmers destroy the ants with a mixture of borax( boric acid).To prepare the mixture, mix borax, sugar, yeast or make a liquid bait( 5 g of borax, 50 g of sugar and 50 g of water) in equal amounts. However, these mixtures can damage pets and useful garden inhabitants.
Ogorodniki often try to dig nests of ants and destroy the larvae, sprinkling the habitat with ashes, lime. This measure almost does not lead to anything. Ants slowly but surely restore their nest and continue to actively harm.
Chemical agents for the destruction of ants
If folk remedies have not helped to destroy ants in the garden and in the garden, you should use ready-made chemical preparations.
Chemical agents for the destruction of ants are divided into:
- loose( in powders) - Anteater, Muratsid, Antimuravei, Dust ;
- gels or liquids - Great Warrior, Ruby, Absolute, Muratox ;
- crayons and traps for house ants - Clean house, Combat, chalk Mashenka .
Whatever you choose from chemical ants, remember that these remedies are dangerous to pets, keep them away from traps and treated surfaces of children.
After destroying the ants in the house, remove all traps and remnants of the remedy and thoroughly wash the treated surfaces. We wish you good luck in fighting the ants in the garden and at home!
How to get rid of ants on the garden
Ways to combat ants in the garden or in the garden are.
Red ants( sometimes called pharaohs) are very dangerous neighbors who like to settle in dachas or in country houses. This neighborhood should be suppressed in the most severe way, as it threatens all residents of the garden plot with trouble.
Fighting ants is a complex task, requiring a comprehensive, competent approach. Incorrect processing done to kill ants leads to a rapid recovery of the number of ants and to the appearance of their getting used to the group of poisonous substances with which the room was processed.
In addition to the fact that ants can get into the house and cause damage in the house, these hard-working insects can harm your trees in the garden and garden plants. The fact is that most species of ants build their nests deep underground, in the root system of trees. If ants chose a tree and decided to settle under it, most likely, such a tree will live no more than 2-3 years. If the nest of ants is in the garden - on it, or near its plant will not grow.
Another "bad habit" of ants is their love for aphids. Ants catch these "bunches", pull them into nests and milk them there, thus, infecting aphids with more trees and soil. Therefore, it is necessary and necessary to combat ants on your garden orchard site, without the use of chemistry, since chemicals can harm not only the ants, but also all living things around, including plants.
Parallel to the fight with ants, you need to get rid of aphids. You can say they are bred each other.
How to get rid of ants on your garden plot?
Ants most often settle in places where soil is rarely treated, because, like all living things, they do not like to be disturbed. By this, the more often digging and cultivating the land, the less chance of the formation of an anthill in it. To rid the trees of the ants, you need to treat the trunk with a strong lime solution, so that the lime covers not only the trunk, but also the ground around it.
If the ants have already chosen your site and there is an anthill in your garden, then it's time to begin resolute actions. An anthill should be dug up and not just on the surface of the earth, but deep. To finally get rid of garden ants you need to destroy their nests, then they will leave themselves from your site. In order to destroy the nest for sure, add lime, ash or ash to the ground, or you can thoroughly and thoroughly dig out the area of their habitat.
It is important to deliver the drug against the ants directly into the nest.
Usually they use poisonous powders: they are eaten by working individuals( or absorbed through their outer covers) and they are also "pawed" brought to the nests.
Means for combating garden ants
Various formulations of diazinon are widely used against numerous leaf-eating and sucking: aphids, bread beetles, honey beetles, cereal flies, ordinary beet weevils, biting scoops, bugs, fireflies, etc. This substance belongs to the class of highly activeorganophosphorus compounds, affects the nervous system of insects and causes paralysis.
Diazinon has a pronounced contact and intestinal effect( quickly absorbed through the mouth and skin) and leads to the death of ants within the first two days after treatment. At the same time, the consumption is minimal: one bottle( 10 ml) of "Anteater" is sufficient for irrigation of 50 square meters.m, it is about 200 anthills. The agent destroys both adults and larvae. On the treated areas ants do not "trample" the new paths and do not arrange new nests. The period of protective action is not less than three weeks.
Folk methods of fighting ants
Ants scare off the smells of parsley, tansy, laurel, anise, mustard, tomato tops. The leaves and stems of these plants are laid out on ant tracks or as a bundle they tie tree trunks. Between the ridges, mint and valerian are sown around the trees. Ants, having felt the "fragrance", will go to another place.
Ant driveways and mounds are sprinkled with drinking soda or processed places of insects' gathering with ashes, taken in equal proportions with crushed wood bark and lime.
Water the anthills with a saturated solution of boric acid with the addition of granulated sugar( 4 tablespoons sugar to a glass of liquid).
Mix the dried ground ore of oregano with sulfur( 1: 2), sprinkle it with the places where the nests are located, or dig over the mixture with the ground.
Ants pile water with kerosene( 10 tablespoons per 10 liters of water).Ant tracks and areas of ants' cluster are spilled with water with vegetable oil.
In the evening, when all the "murash" in the houses, the nests dig up and pour boiling water. In this case, it is necessary to spread the nest completely and only then it is good to shed it. Thus, the queen of the family and the larvae are destroyed. Unfortunately, all these folk remedies only frighten off the ants. Completely rid of them only insecticide drugs.
Several more ways to combat the ants
Deserves the attention of gardeners the following way to combat the ants. From the sheepskin, cut strips and tie the raspberry shoots at a distance of 13-18 cm from the ground. The strips must be outwardly wool, the latter being lubricated with unprotected carbolic acid. The smell of this acid expels the ants thoroughly and saves the berry bushes from the invasion of small destroyers of color and bushes of shrubs.
You can apply this method. A shallow groove is made around the anthill, then it is doused with sulphurous carbon and the anthill is immediately ignited, so that it ignites from all directions and into the interior. Insects can no longer be saved from death;they do not even have time to run.
You can also pour anthills with boiling water or kerosene to exterminate ants.
You can rub the places of ants' cluster with garlic or onions, cook bait: in 3 tbsp.l.water to dissolve 1 tbsp.l.sugar and 1/3 tsp.borax. All heat, mix, cool and add 1 tsp.honey. This bait to lay out in places of congestion of insects.
I annoy the annoying ants from my country plot of land very simply. I find an anthill and, starting from it, pour a thin stream of concentrated sweet water or honey 2-3 meters in length, and at the end I pour 1 tablespoon of the same sweet bait.
Ants as hypnotized run along this path. They can collect at least some sovochkom, sprinkle with salt or simply trample. After 2-3 days, the procedure must be repeated, but the sweet path should be laid in the other direction. I noticed that for some reason the murash is not running around the "old" path.
The beds can be sprinkled with a mixture of ash, heavily crushed wood bark and lime.
Ants can not stand sharp smells. On an anthill of black ants, place the head of a smoked herring, spread out the tops of tomato or parsley leaves.
In the journal Progressive Horticulture and Trucking for 1906, the following advice is given: a layer of soot and ash, which is sprinkled with soil in order to get rid of ants, it is good to pour a strong solution of table salt.
The decoction of tomato tops is detrimental to ants. The more concentrated the solution, the better. Ants do not tolerate this plant to such an extent that they do not even come across in beds where tomatoes grow. I, for example, from the green tops of tomatoes, wiggle the semblance of belts and tie them with trunks of apple trees and plums at a height of about 1.5 m. Over the summer, no ant can penetrate the tree's crown.
If an anthill is some distance from cultivated plants, you can pour it with boiling water.
On the tracks along which the ants move( and they move strictly along their routes), put the garlic slices cut into several parts, twigs of wormwood, tomato leaves.
You can arrange the ants a sweet trap: in half a liter of water dilute a half-spoonful of boric acid and 1 tbsp.a spoonful of sugar. Stir thoroughly, pour into small dishes and put on the edge a straw or blade of grass, along which the ants will reach the bait.
Tablespoon yeast pour cold boiled water to the consistency of thick sour cream, stir, add a teaspoon of jam and stir again. Then, on a piece of cardboard, it is necessary to apply this mixture and install it in the places of the accumulation of ants. They eat the mixture and after a while they die. It is better to cook the bait in smaller quantities, but more often, without letting it dry out. On top of the sun and rain cover with a film, leaving the ants slot at the bottom.
To destroy the ants, lay out the poisoned bait.
The bait recipe: 40% sugar, 10% honey, 5% borax, 45% water. The baits are poured into test tubes and laid them in an inclined position in the places where the ants are taken( at the rate of one tube for 3-4 square meters).
Ants are well repelled by sunflower oil. They are smeared on all sides of the edge of the vessels, which contain jam, honey, sugar, sweets.
Ants in the house or apartment
It is difficult to fight the ants, but you can. The main thing here is to take into account some features of the ant life. So, the heart of the colony of ants is the nest, where the females are, or the queen ant, who are producing more and more new working individuals. Females do not leave their nests and can not get their own food, they are fed by sterile worker ants.
Find the nest of ants in the apartment is very difficult. Usually it is safely hidden in some small cavity in the wall or in the floor. Even if you are lucky and you find an ant laz, do not rush to tear the tile or remove the parquet: the corridor leading to the nest, hidden from the eyes, can be quite long, and you will have to spoil more than one tile or parquet. However, if the workers of the ants feed the entire colony, you can try through them to "treat" the females and larvae with some poisonous potion. This is possible if the concentration of poison( most effective - boric acid) will be small( not exceed 2 percent).The ant will not perish at once, but will carry it to the heart of the colony.
Here are a few simple recipes:
- Dilute approximately 1/4 teaspoon of boric acid, three teaspoons of sugar and one or two teaspoons of honey to a glass of water. The bait in small dishes should be exhibited more than once and not twice, and within a month, and in a place where ants can get, and other pets - no. Watch out for the poison for ants not to become a dangerous toy for your children.
- It is recommended to use meat bait against ants. For its preparation, take 2 tablespoons of minced meat and a half teaspoon of ground borax. All this is mixed and laid out in places where ants are clustered.
- Ants scare away also the smell of sunflower oil, elderberry leaves, wild mint and wormwood.
- Borax helps - a mixture of boric acid with sugar or honey. These creatures eat it and die.
- Dichlorvos.
- It is necessary to bring in an apartment where home ants of REAL FORESTS live from the street and those, as decent revelers, should take them to the forest and the domestic ones. By the way, there is nothing ridiculous, the way has already been ASKED - the disappearance of domestic ants - 100%.
- Type in the jar of water, add more honey or sugar, they will crawl there and voluntarily drown.
- Try garlic to lubricate their roads about a couple of times a month.
- Front Line spray helps radically - quite expensive spray, from cockroaches, ants, fleas and ticks. Sold in veterinary pharmacies.
- Radical means - "Regent".Small bag, dilute with water, apply a small syringe with a needle in all holes, lobes.
- Buy a special tool in the shop of a special tube in the tube( the names can be absolutely different) and smear this "toothpaste" near the roads and the courses of the ants. The meaning is that they begin to ache and infect their colony, i. E.the effect increases at times.
Recently, more cases of bugs in the country or in the apartment.
A few more tips on fighting ants in the apartment:
- ants well scares off sunflower oil. So that they do not get into food, it is necessary to lubricate the edges of the dishes and packages containing food in sunflower oil.
- dissolve yeast in water, add jam or powdered sugar and put this mixture in the cabinet with products. The ants will attack the bait and die.
- ants scare away the smell of lemon. Therefore, you can grease the lemon with the edges of the dishes, which contain jam, honey or sugar.
- put a piece of raw meat in an accessible place and in a few days, remove from it run up ants. After a while, the hungry uterus will crawl to the food, destroy it and the multiplication of the ants will cease.
- good red ants scare off and smell of parsley, garlic, bay leaf and mustard.
- To get rid of domestic ants in the kitchen, you must first, as far as possible, remove holes and cracks from which these ants creep out, then collect all the ants in one heap - for this you need to pour the sugar in the place of their usual accumulation, then elementary etch themA tool that can be bought at any household chemical store.
- To repel ants from products, the edges of the bags can be lubricated with sunflower oil.
- The lower parts of the table legs are lightly smeared with the preparation from mosquitoes "Taiga" or "Komareks", after which 2-3 days the ants will not dare to rise to the surface of the table.
Knowledge of the laws of life of the ant colony allows not only to find a suitable way of fighting, but also eliminates unnecessary fears. So, if, even after returning from the guests together with a slice of grandmother's pie, you bring some sterile working ants, they still will not be able to establish a colony and begin to multiply. Only females know the settlement. If it was not so, then the pharaoh ant would take much less time to settle around the world.
How to deal with black ants?
Often, amateur gardeners are concerned about small black ants that live in anthills located in the soil, usually among vegetative plants. When there are straw ants on the garden plot, ants prefer this culture for the construction of an anthill. The ants do not directly damage plants, but they protect the aphids, the sweet secretions of which feed.
Fighting ants is difficult. Many well-known techniques for spreading cloves of garlic, tomato leaves on ant trails, as well as poison baits do not always give the desired effect.
And yet there is a long experience of dealing with ants when they become pests of the garden and settle in dwellings, and therefore it is worth trying what is most accessible and acceptable.
First of all in the garden you need to protect the trees from the black ant and process them from aphids. The aphid colonies are not numerous until ants appear in the garden, so to protect the mass appearance of ants on garden plants, they need to be protected from aphids.
The first sign of the appearance of aphids on plants - scurrying up and down black garden ants. Now it's time to carefully examine the tops of growing shoots and the back side of young leaves and, if small pest colonies are found, destroy them, using infusions and decoctions of insecticidal plants, " Antitlin " and other relatively safe means for this purpose.
Inspection of plants should be carried out at least once a week, destroying small pest colonies.
The best result is obtained if you combine the treatment with the application of protective belts, which exclude the contact of aphids with garden ants.
For this purpose, in the beginning of May, protective belts of polyethylene film with a width of 15-20 cm are laid on the trunks of young trees, tightly wrapping the trunk in 2-3 layers at a height of 30-40 cm from the soil. Then apply a thin layer of entomological glue, tar, solidol, resin, any viscous substance through which the ants can not penetrate. Shoulder belts should be periodically weakened or updated as the sticky layer gets dirty( 2-3 times per season) and ensure that the sticky liquid does not fall on the tree to avoid burns. In the middle - the end of August, the trapping belts must be removed.
Another way: wrap the barrel with a funnel made of a smooth flexible material( tinplate, thin plastic), placing it wide part down and pre-lubricated with a layer of vaseline oil. Such an obstacle ants can not overcome.
Directly on the tree, you can apply a mixture of soot and linseed oil with a circular tape, the width of the palm. These techniques are suitable for protection against tree ants.
Shrubs are not protected in this way. In this case, it is possible to spray with a repellent mixture of linseed oil( 30 g) and baking soda( 5 g) in 1 liter of water.
If this technique does not help, you will have to destroy the nests of ants. Means for the destruction of ants is well known - it is a borax or boric acid, which acts as an intestinal poison. In a saturated aqueous solution of borax dilute sugar( 3 teaspoons per glass of liquid).Small cotton woolen cloth moistened with this solution and spread around the anthill. Ants foraging die from this solution not at once, but manage to pass it to other ants. You can make a bait from a mixture of boric acid and raw egg yolk.
If the anthills are located among the garden plants( most often planted with strawberries) and harm plants, they must be sprinkled with ordinary or chlorine lime, and then watered. Do not forget that the anthills go to the ground to a depth of 1 m, so you need to tear and process layer by layer. This technique can be used against ants that damage the roots, by performing surface treatment of the soil under damaged plants.
Well repels ants with a 20% carbolic solution, poured on an ant pile, as well as an onion planted around trees and shrubs.
You can pour mold piles with a mixture of kerosene and carbolic acid. To make it, you need to take 400 grams of laundry soap, dissolve it in a small amount of warm water, add 2 tablespoons of carbolic acid and 10 spoons of kerosene, mix everything thoroughly and bring the volume of liquid to 10 liters. After 2-3 times watering ants leave the anthill. This mixture can be sprayed with tree trunks in order to repel the ants.
To scare off the black garden ant from the hives, lay out under them on the canvas fresh or dry tansy plants.
In the greenhouses and greenhouses, spray the slits and places of the ants with an aqueous solution( formalin( 1:10). After two treatment the ants completely disappear, the same solution can also be used for irrigation of ants.
It is very difficult to get rid of a house ant. The house ant can be removed within 5 months, alternating baits from meat or sausage minced meat with the addition of 1.3% of biologic preparation baturin and borax.
Basically all the recipes of poisoned baits given here are old, tried, I hope theywill help reduce the harm caused by ants in your garden plots.
How to deal with garden ants
In themselves, black garden ants are not garden pests. But they plant and protect the aphids, transfer them from the plant to the plant, and already the aphid spoils the plants, drawing out useful juices from them. Therefore, many gardeners and truck farmers are interested in how to deal with garden ants.
To get rid of garden ants, you first need to find anthills. Do not feel sorry for insects and just take the anthill into the forest: the "heap" is only the visible part of the anthill, mostly it is underground, so that the ants will return to your garden. To combat the garden ants was effective, you need to remove the upper part of the anthill and fill it with a tool from garden ants.
Specialized tools such as "Muravin", "Muratsid", "Anteater", "Fenaksin", "Grom-2" and "Aktara" have proved themselves well. Part of the drugs are available in the form of a liquid that needs to be diluted in water, some in the form of granules. The liquid is more convenient to use on lawns and areas, where there are a lot of nests, granules - on separate anthills. You must apply funds strictly according to the instructions.
You can also fight with garden ants "improvised means".The anthills are poured with kerosene and boiling water, sprinkled with ashes and carbide, processed with improvised chemical preparations. So, you can water the anthill with an emulsion of 10% carbofos( 3-4 tablespoons of preparation per 10 liters of water) or pour a strip of borax or boric acid or borax 4-5 cm wide around it.
However, there is no guarantee that you canfind and destroy absolutely all the anthills, so it is worth combining the destruction of the nests with other methods of struggle. So, you can fight with garden ants with the help of special poisoned baits, which decompose under the plants. Ants eat the bait and, returning to the anthill, feed her larvae.
Trees can be protected from ants by using a sticky piece of paper from flies, which should be wrapped around the trunk. Such a tape will protect the trees not only from black garden ants, but also from harmful caterpillars and beetles. Please note that the tape dries out over time, so you need to change it periodically.
An alternative to tape is a special adhesive gel applied around the trunk. The popular way is wool or wool soaked in carbolic solution, or a mixture of soot with linseed oil, which you need to coat the barrel with a ring width in the palm of your hand. You can also wrap the barrel of foil by placing foam under it. Ants will not be able to get over this "skirt".
Also, ants do not like harsh odors, for example, the aromas of spices. So you can scare away the garden ants, sprinkling the places of their accumulation with the next mixture. Take an incomplete glass of flour, add 1 tbsp.l.ground black pepper and the same amount of ground cloves and( or) mustard powder. An even simpler recipe is to mix coffee grounds with crushed orange peels.
You can prepare a phyto propellant, which will need to spray plants from ants. Grind a pungent pepper pod, mix with 1 tbsp.l.cayenne pepper and pour two liters of water. Boil for 15-20 minutes, cool and strain. Add 1 tbsp.l.liquid soap or dish detergent, pour into a spray bottle and spray plants that have been chosen by ants.
You can also plant next to vegetables vegetables that scare the ants away. This, for example, tansy, sage, basil, marigold, thyme, mint, dill. All these plants are rich in aromatic essential oils, the smell of which the garden ants do not tolerate.
To successfully combat garden ants, you need to apply an integrated approach. Only then you will be able to successfully drive out the invaders from your garden and throw all the forces into the struggle with aphids that will remain without their defenders.
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