A 50 50 mixture of borax and sugar will help to control ants.
Ant control in garden organic.
Ants also help to speed decomposition of organic matter such as leaves straw and even other dead insects.
You can use coffee grounds chili powder cinnamon peppermint or black pepper.
There are lots of organic garden pest control deterrent for ants but keep applying and changing them because they are determined little blighters indeed.
When ants are under attack some ants will gather a few eggs and move to another location so often all you achieve is for them to move their nest somewhere else in which case unless they become a pest again leave them in peace.
Ants will readily take the mixture back to the next and share it with others.
You can easily spot ants in the garden when aphids are tiny and sometimes hard to spot.
Baking soda is poisonous to ants spinkle it around your plants to ensure ants will stay away.
Sprinkle the chalk in a line around your plants or around the perimeter of your garden to keep ants away.
Reapply as needed or after a rain.
10 ways to kill ants organically.
Crush up some chalk.
All deter ants and if you pour coffee grounds directly on an anthill they will eat the coffee grounds and implode.
Flour baby powder will keep ants from reaching your plants ants will not cross the powder so circle your plants with it.
In this video tricia shares her tips on controlling ants in the house and in the garden.
If you don t have chalk buy ground cinnamon cayenne pepper curry powder or baby powder and use them the same way.