Get Rid of the Ants in the Garden

Ants come in colonies and the colony has workers and a queen. The ants will follow each other around in a chain. The workers will climb right up your plants and cut pieces of the leaves off of all of your plants to take them back to the queen and the nest. If you do nothing to stop the ants, they will eat all of your plant until there is little or nothing left. Just like ants are hard to keep out of your home, they are also hard to keep out of your garden.

The ants will also feed off of the dew on the leaves of your plants. They will follow each other up your plant and destroy it if you will let them. Some ants will dig tunnels all around your plants and go under the soil as well. If you see any problems with the leaves of your plant you will want to keep an eye out for which insects are eating the leaves. If you find that it is ants, you may want to buy and plant a few peonies to keep the ants away from these plants.

Ants are attracted to peonies for some odd reason. A lot of people will not grow them because of this. Some people grow them to keep the ants out of their gardens and other plants that they like.

Some people are also known to place tape, sticky side up, around the trunk of the plants to keep the ants from climbing any further up. The ants will get stuck to the sticky tape and never make it to the leaves. Of course if you still see problems with the leaves it's because you have a flying insect problem and not an ant problem. You will need to do a little bit of trial and error to find what works well for you. Another way to keep little bugs off of your plants is to attract them somewhere else with something they like, such as sugar. You can also go directly to the anthill and pour steaming hot water on the ant hill around noon when the ants will be there. If you kill the whole colony you only have to worry about a few stray ants.

They also say if you mix baking powder and sugar together equally, this will kill or keep away the ants. You can try to place a line of salt around your garden and see if this keeps the ants from coming into your garden and onto your plants.