Help with the ant problem

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  • greyfurball
    greyfurball Posts: 591 ✭✭✭✭

    Thanks a lot for this video.

    I have never heard the borax/sugar recipe before and it completely makes sense. My property is covered with white pine trees so I have tons of ants in the hot summer weather. This will be my experiment for this year to see if I can help control them around the garden.

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  • kbmbillups1
    kbmbillups1 Posts: 1,272 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I used borax and sugar last year and it worked really well! I put holes in the tiny plastic bowel so they could climb in b/c that's what all of the people in the videos did. Now, that I see him pour it right on the hill I'm going to do that instead. I bet it will work much quicker!

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  • silvertipgrizz
    silvertipgrizz Posts: 1,990 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @greyfurball

    @kbmbillups1

    I'm wondering if the borax is toxic to plants. Any idea?

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  • kbmbillups1
    kbmbillups1 Posts: 1,272 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @silvertipgrizz I don't know. Nothing happened to my plants last year but I didn't pour it onto the ant beds. I poked holes in the tiny plastic containers on all sides and they did get watered down by the rain and toppled over in a storm a few days after I put them out. I'm not sure how much came out but I did add more to them. It did work really well.

    I made my own problem though. I had a trench filled with veggie straps right next to my tomato plants with no ants. They came once I added a couple scobby's even though I covered the entire thing with a good amount of dirt. Apparently ants love left over kombucha scobby's. I'm going to make another trench this year (minus the scobby's) in a different bed when I plant my tomatoes b/c they grew better than ever last year.

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  • greyfurball
    greyfurball Posts: 591 ✭✭✭✭

    @silvertipgrizz

    you should be completely safe as long as you do not have an overabundance of boron mineral compounds in your soil. Only way I know of to figure that out is get a soil test.

    But he did mention also in this video that he gets that question often and he mentioned then borax has only two ingredients, the mineral boron and water.

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  • silvertipgrizz
    silvertipgrizz Posts: 1,990 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @greyfurball I have not done my homework on this product and all I know about it is very little. I did hear him say that and so with a mental note to self to research it as the little I do know is I was told it is quite poisonous but I always used it in my laundry??? I have a rather disgusting ant issue in my grow tubs and even though any damage to the plants were non evident and I had a very good crop for the last 2 years, after what he said in this vid it is clear they must go so as I progress I will update...and I am very tired of being bitten.

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