[Market-farming] ant hills

Garth & Kim Travis gartht at txcyber.com
Sun Jul 12 14:46:42 EDT 2009


Greetings,
Drowning the ants does work, especially if you use hot, soapy water.  
Soapy water breaks the adhesion so they drown, not float on the water.  
Put them to work tilling your land, use a jet of water directed at the 
hills, every time they build one and make it move.  I have been know to 
work the soil by this method, when my tractor was stolen and I waited 
for paperwork to be done.  Grits only work if A: they are the instant, 
super dehydrated ones, and B: they don't get rehydrate before the ants 
eat them.  You may have fed them instead of harming them.  Cinnamon is a 
spice they don't like, make sure areas that you don't want them in are 
sprinkled with cinnamon.

Bright Blessings,
Kim

Ray M wrote:
> I am having trouble with a bumper crop of ant hills this year.  These 
> are not the normal ants, these make huge hills that can reach over 3 
> feet across and over a foot tall.  They are scattered around my farn, 
> but now are they are closing in on my house and garden.  And they 
> bite!  I've tried "grits" but that didn't help. I am reluctant to use 
> strong pesticides because I get my water from a shallow well and 
> believe whatever I put on the ground today comes out the faucet 
> tomorrow.   Any suggestions on how to get rid of the ants?
>  


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