Ants

t3clayton · June 5, 2011

Are ants good or bad for my garden? If bad, how do I get rid of them?

Gobig_or_Gohome_toms · June 5, 2011

Ants tend to garden aphids for food so they might be bad for you plants do you see any aphids on your plants? As far as getting ride of them I am not sure what is available for vegetable safe sprays.

Craig

kath · June 5, 2011

If you can find the antholes, you can sprinkle diatomaceous earth in and around them. If you can get them to take a homemade mix like sugar and boric acid back to the nest, it'll hopefully kill the colony.

I find that they are pests because of the aphid farming, strawberry munching and for the biting they do that results in gigantic horrendously itchy oozy welts they cause when they bite me.

June 5, 2011	#1
t3clayton Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Mar 2011 Location: Maumee, Oh Posts: 11	Ants Are ants good or bad for my garden? If bad, how do I get rid of them?

June 5, 2011	#2
Gobig_or_Gohome_toms Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Zone 4 Lake Minnetonka, MN Posts: 967	Ants tend to garden aphids for food so they might be bad for you plants do you see any aphids on your plants? As far as getting ride of them I am not sure what is available for vegetable safe sprays. Craig

June 5, 2011	#3
kath Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: zone 6b, PA Posts: 5,664	If you can find the antholes, you can sprinkle diatomaceous earth in and around them. If you can get them to take a homemade mix like sugar and boric acid back to the nest, it'll hopefully kill the colony. I find that they are pests because of the aphid farming, strawberry munching and for the biting they do that results in gigantic horrendously itchy oozy welts they cause when they bite me.