How To Keep Ants Out Of Plants
For gardeners whether it’s vegetable plants or flowers ants can become a problem. Ants can damage the leaves, flowers, and vegetables and even spread around plant diseases killing off the plants you are trying to grow.
If you want to learn how to keep ants out of plants, there are simple methods to follow to make ants not want to touch your plants anymore.
One of the most popular methods of keeping ants off plants is to used substances that repell the ants from the garden area.
Popular repellents include:
Commercial ant repellents – These do work but normally aren’t safe for animals like pets or children. If eating from the garden, you don’t want to mix your food with poisonous chemicals.
Cinnamon barrier – Ants don’t like cinnamon and will stay away.
Peppermint oil barrier – This works best when applied to cotton balls and spread around the garden or any other place in the house where ants are a problem.
Used coffee grounds – Ants hate this and a side effect is that used coffee grounds make a good fertilizer.
Black pepper – This works but cats don’t do well with pepper. If you have a pet cat, consider an alternative.
Why are ants in the garden in the first place?
One of the biggest attractors of ants are aphids in the garden. Aphids in and of themselves are pests that destroy your garden. They also excrete honeydew which ants are attracted to. The focus can turn to getting rid of aphids to help get rid of the ant problem.
Aphids can be controlled by beneficial insects. If you move your garden towards more organic methods, then you will have insects that control the pesky insects like aphids which will reduce ants.
Other Considerations
Another method to consider is to flood ant hills. Many believe that it must only be done with boiling water but the water from a garden hose will work fine. This won’t instantly make ants go away, but done every few days that ants will get the message and move on as it’s difficult for them to live in perpetually moist conditions.
Attract birds to the yard which will eat ants and help control the population in the yard.
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