How do we overcome the ant chaos
The plot for individual housing construction, we went after the collective farm. For 7 years of neglect ants have mastered it, so that was a solid ant hill. Ran and red, and those that build nests slide, and such that huddle on the ground level.... We started to plant the seedlings, mop - anthill. Flooded with boiling water, cool the land - planting. barbarous method, only had the total hopelessness.
A plum aphid... what does not sprinkled from folk remedies. Ants climbed and climbed, lifting new aphids. Curled peppers, pumpkins, squash. Tabazol rained down kilos seemed to help. Fitoverm constantly sprinkled.
Salad could not grow as soon as it found ants, staged it anthill. Well salad last year planted before winter and the kids dug rostochkom 5 cm to at least something to have time to eat. Such passions.
In the past year, helped spring drought. Under the trees and bushes in the dry soil spread ground Diatomite. A watered a little further to a small tree trunks were dry. Help! Trees saved. For the season.
Diatomite is very porous, its ability to absorb moisture is phenomenal, manufacturers write that 800 times its weight absorbs. He is willing to dehydrate all insects.
To feel sorry for the ants, I would say that they do not suffer, have time to escape, but did not want to come back. At the same time Diatomite - a natural source of silicon for the plants.
This year I grow a salad! Peppers and cucumbers do not know what the ants and aphids. Trees and bushes ant visit, but do not create environmental disaster.
Spring cucumber in a greenhouse were crowd ants. I laid there balls with boric acid (mashed potatoes, yolk and acid). Previously, she was afraid that the cats will eat and poison. And this new greenhouse closed to them. Under the trees, too, has put the balls under the hay, that cats do not gazed, not otprobovat.
Movement of ants continued, but went into decline. Now some individuals occasionally visible.
So, for the salad made greenhouse, not from the cold, but from unwanted guests. When set greenhouse, ants running even more than in the greenhouse before the action. There except balls with an acid set "feeders" to the gel. That's for sure! The name I do not remember, the packaging thrown. It seems that "great warrior."
The meaning of the trough, so that the light on the gel did not fall, and the rain did not interfere with formic meal. Well, the earth does not pollute this chemistry. In short, had gone almost all the ants and from the greenhouse, and from the greenhouse!
The rest of the garden, too, this season is not yet suffering. Aphids is distracting to the plants. I suppose that the boric acid and the gel was put into many nests of placing dots.
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