Ants are one of the most dangerous insects who occupy personal plot. They do big harm to cultural plants as are distributors of plant louse. How to get rid of ants on kitchen garden and in garden folk remedies?
As soon as the sun begins to warm in the spring, on personal plot the life comes to life. There is great number of insects wreckers with whom it is necessary to struggle by all means. One of such are ants. And though they do not do special harm to plants, but extend on kitchen garden of such wrecker as plant louse. And she already in turn, strikes all cultural plants, including trees and bushes.
To get rid of ants on the site, it is possible to use various chemical medicines, for example, Great Soldier gel or the powder "Anteater". But their application at the time of blossoming and fructification of plants is unsafe and can do certain harm to future harvest. Therefore it is in that case effective to use folk remedies from ants.
Folk remedies and recipes from garden ants
1. If chemical medicines do not help, then it is possible to prepare the following means: to mix boric acid with water. To spread out the received gruel in places of congestion of ants to piece of cardboard and to cover with glass for protection against moisture penetration. Within several days the ants will be gone.
2. Not less effective way is use of yeast. For this purpose one pack of yeast is filled in with water and kneaded. You should not add too much liquid (on 1 pack of 2-3 tsps of water), otherwise yeast begins to ferment quickly. Also add 2-3 tsps of sugar to this mix and all mix. The received means is displayed on footpaths of ants on pieces of cardboard. In several days the part of ants will die, and the others will leave kitchen garden or garden.
3. Under garden trees and bushes it is necessary to put film piece that weeds have not sprouted. Then to mix yellow sand and wood ashes. And ashes has to be much. To fill the received mix the hill around tree trunk or bush. It will be difficult for ants to breathe in such conditions, and they will stop climbing on plants.
4. There is also other way how to bar the way to ants on garden trees. It is necessary to wind below trunk densely with any material, for example film. And for fastening to use the ropes processed by solid oil. Ants do not transfer smell of this substance and will not be able to overcome this obstacle. Also the tree trunk can be wound with tomato tops of vegetable. To it these insects have disgust too.
5. Places of congestion of ants water with addition of vegetable oil. Still it is regularly possible to water them with boiled water, but this method is less effective and demands large number of time.
6. It is possible to get rid of garden ants on the site by means of beer. For this purpose to the earth dig in small plastic capacity. In it pour a little beer and add 1-2 spoons of honey. There it is necessary to fill sawdust. After a while in capacity there will be huge number of ants. It is taken out from the earth, and sawdust together with mean insects burns. Such action is repeated several times until ants completely disappear. The most effective time for this way comes in May when the young growth of ants has not appeared yet.
7. Garden ants live in symbiosis with plant louses. Therefore it is necessary to fight against it too effectively. For this purpose it is possible to prepare infusions from onions peel, wormwood, garlic, green grass or dandelion. All these means are safe and will not do harm to cultural plants.