Hello, friends! I have already written more than once about how to deal with ants at home, so you and I are already well aware of many folk remedies against ants in the house. But some people besides the house also have their own garden plot. There are many more of these insects than in an apartment. Today I will offer you several options for dealing with garden ants. Forward!
Friends, I warn you that my methods of combating garden ants may seem inhumane to you, but all of them are effective. After all, we understand that we can’t just ask ants to move to their neighbors. Therefore, you just have to poison or kick them out!
Remedy for ants in the garden number 1: a protective barrier
Let's start with elementary methods. We create a protective barrier for trees. Take an old car tire, cut it across. We encircle the tree trunk with it . We close the incision with sealant or Moment glue. You can pre-"sew up" it in cross section with several turns of ordinary wire. Pour water into the tire. We will get a kind of "pool". It is both a barrier for ants and a drinking bowl for birds and wasps useful to your garden!
Remedy for ants in garden number 2: the destruction of the anthill
Mechanical methods of fighting ants are also yielding results. Carefully dig out and transfer the anthill beyond the borders of our site. This is a humane method. If you are interested in the exact execution of the ant dwelling, then we do this: take a shovel, turn the anthill “wide open”, and then pour boiling water on it, sprinkle with lime or spray it with special toxic chemicals.
Remedy for ants in the garden number 3: garlic
Tree ants are a thunderstorm of shrubs and garden trees! It is known that these insects hate pungent odors (such as garlic), so we take the garlic and chop its arrows. Then we very densely and densely tie the trunks of trees and bushes with green arrows . Ants will bulge their eyes and get out!
Remedy for ants in the garden number 4: glue "Alt"
Get special glue called "Alt" from the hardware store. This tool will not allow home scouts ants. Catch it? There will be no one to transmit news about the next tree to the anthill, which means that working ants will not come to gnaw it!
The tool against ants in the garden number 5: wormwood
Friends, we have completely forgotten about greenhouses! After all, whole settlements of ants that can destroy a rather valuable crop can be visited there. As a rule, an anthill is located a few meters from the greenhouse. As in the very first case, the fight against these parasites is to limit their access to the greenhouse. You can simply spread wormwood around it. If you still want to destroy the nests themselves, then use methods that are safe for garden soil:
- scald the anthill with boiling water;
- sprinkle it with ash or lime.
Never use chemistry!
And finally
In general, there are simply many ways to deal with garden ants! However, not all of them are effective, and the reasons for this lie in a large number of anthills, in the adaptation of insects, in the illiterate application of one or another method. Therefore, I recommend that you use an integrated approach! Use my advice, but not all in turn, but several at once!