Ants can be double trouble in a vegetable garden. Here’s why, and how to control them in YOUR garden!
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I live in Los Angeles, and I used to have the most awful trouble with ants in my garden. They'd use the lemon tree to farm their ant cows, and the poor tree fought them as well. And then the pandemic happened, and within three months the ants disappeared. I mean COMPLETELY. I haven't seen one in three years. I have no idea what happened. I didn't do anything differently; in fact, by that time, I'd given up trying to stop the ants. They just vanished without a trace. It's the weirdest thing I've encountered since I started gardening.
Leave the Ants alone haha
Nice. I had a 5 gallon nursery pot with old soil in it & an apparent ant colony! I used D.E. all over the top. "Set it and forget it"
So very helpful. We have ants covering Red Asian long bean vine with tons of black aphids. Thankful you offered non chemical option approach. How to use DE on a climbing vine plant? Hopeful plant can be saved.
So helpful! Thank you!
Hello, i have been enjoying learning from tour videos. Im glad you did this topic. I was out in my garden today checking my green babies 😊. Is it natural to have some ants? Or should I kill at the site of an ant?
I have had hardly any Okra. Lots of blooms, tons of ants 🤦♀️ I’ve tried DE and using dawn in water. It slowed them down but they came back just as strong. 🤦♀️
Kim I had the same problem but I showed those aunts who was boss and they left adios lol.
Thank you! The ants are worse than ever this year in Nor Cal, and likewise the aphids! I've got Diatomaceous Earth, I'll get the Super Soap.
Thanks Kim It seems i have every vermin in my garden it is frustrating! Thanks for your help 😊
good luck killing the ants, lol. you may get a few, but you'll never wipe out the colony. those little bastards are invincible. it's been proven that they can even survive a nuclear explosion. when he said that the meek shall inherit the earth, he was talking about ants.
Welcome to my world. I have ants, moqstios, bees, hornets and other insets that I have no idea that existed.