Today we will analyze many ways how to get rid of ants in a summer cottage; some will surely help you, and you will clear the garden of this scourge. In the fight against ants, you need to understand - the goosebumps themselves who run back and forth across your legal territory are pawns. Their existence depends on the uterus, their queen, who sits deep in the nest, produces other working soldiers, and the ants, like zombies, are programmed to work from birth. They are the labor force, their task is to feed and protect the uterus and offspring. If you manage to remove their queen, you will get rid of ants.
For this purpose, there are many methods, let's understand in order. Of course, I want to avoid the most aggressive ones, using poisons, because this is our territory, we grow crops on it, and poisoning it together with ants is not at all logical. Therefore, we will consider folk methods invented by gardeners to fight ants. Many of them can be very effective - because of the work!
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Ants on fruit trees - how to fight?
In the garden, ants are very dangerous for fruit trees - they can settle right in the roots - write is lost, the tree will simply disappear after a couple of years. At the bottom of the trunks you need to lubricate well with a strong solution of lime, and the earth around the trunk, as well as tar, helps a lot.
Fruit trees (if the nest is not inside the roots) can be overlaid with old tires and poured along and water can be poured there, the ants cannot move through the water, which means they will not climb onto the tree, and in the meantime you will destroy the aphids on it - and that's all, the tree is saved, the crop again on it will be excellent! By the way, the proven effective method is horseradish roots; their infusion helps aphids a lot. You need to dig up horseradish, chop, pour water and let it stand for half a day.
In the meantime, take off all the leaves on the trees, bushes or garden where the aphid sits (where the colonies sit, if only singly - the horseradish infusion will destroy it), burn the leaves. Yes, it is troublesome, but very effective! Then drain the solution, and spray all the damaged aphids of the planting, and scatter the rest of the horseradish right under the bushes and plants. Meanwhile, fight the ants, otherwise the aphids will again train! See also: diseases of apple trees and their treatment photo.
Herbs repelling ants
Let's start small - after all, we feel sorry for the poor hard-working ants, the share of which from birth to work on the uterus and growing offspring, and they don’t know another life, except how to drag food into the anthill and feed the whole horde. Those who are born immediately get into operation, except for a few winged individuals who rule the entire ant kingdom, arranging new nests, and postponing new offspring.
Here is such a life for them, hardworking ants. And there is no gap in it - from dawn to dawn it works for its anthill, without holidays and weekends, as they say. Therefore - we are trying to scare goosebumps first - maybe they will leave themselves in search of a more favorable place, and we will not have to destroy them.
First of all, if you have found several anthills on the site, plant grasses that the ants do not like — tansy, parsley, ants do not like ants, they run from mustard.By the way, if by autumn, after harvesting, sow mustard on the plot - you kill three birds with one stone - the ants will run away, the bear will get away, and you will also feed the earth with useful substances, digging it with green plantations of mustard, as it is green, and it’s great affects the quality of the land.
We water the trails, we mislead the ant
Remember, the main thing for the extermination of ants is to remove the uterus, block pathways along the site and expel them from the garden. So, we will consider what means the gardeners came up with in the fight against ants, and we will try to eliminate them from their plot and save the crop with trees.
You need to understand that the ants run along the beaten paths, and you can fight them, blocking the moves for them. For this purpose, in order to disorient ants by smell, garlic, oregano with sulfur, soda, ash and lime are laid out along their paths. The paths are shed with vegetable oil (especially the best smelling one), a mixture of boric acid with sugar, kerosene. On the ant heaps lay the heads of smoked fish (then ants are collected on it), traps with sugar syrup, and so on. You collect ants and destroy them in traps, the uterus creeps to the surface from hunger - and here you have caught it, and the ant kingdom is over.
But, this is if you have the time and desire to mess around like that, this is a laborious task, and not everyone can do it.
And then - if you haven’t gotten many of them yet, you can try to relocate them to another section in this way, let the neighbors fight them. But seriously - then the ants need to be taken thoroughly, and even feel sorry for the little laborers, but there is so much harm from them that can not be transferred. Therefore, we protect our territory and crop, and act with pressure from all sides. We ruin the anthills to the base, pour boiling water, kerosene, a strong solution of salt, cover everything with wormwood, tansy, yeast with water and jam, we spread everywhere as bait, this sweetness is destructive for ants. And do not forget to fight with aphids, an herd of ant, located in your garden!
Next, ground cinnamon, boiling water, which is poured into open anthills, minced meat traps with boric acid, coniferous concentrate, shag and so on, are used. And finally, another recipe:
Pour 2 cups of odorous vegetable oil, a bottle of vinegar, a bottle of shampoo (the cheapest one possible) into a bucket of water, mix everything. Next - look for anthills, tear it deeper and pour this mixture directly into the depths, to the uterus and cocoons. You can also use tar soap with kerosene and carbolic. Try it, some way will definitely help!
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