Ant problem

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Permalink Reply by Regan Pryor on May 20, 2009 at 6:38

Normally this means the garden is to dry I think, Ants like a dry environment so a garden that is nice and moist does not make a good home. Given all the dry weather at this time, your problem may have gone already

Permalink Reply by Sue Ferens on August 10, 2010 at 16:30

In my experience, there's not much can be done apart from chemical fumigation. We live on a sand hill and have a myriad of ants nests everywhere, incl ants in the beehive and in the worm farm, not to mention the garden. They love mulch.
Have tried any deterrent plants etc but nothing has worked to any great extent these past 2 years, but then we are at the top of the north island in one of THE driest environments in the country. I do wash the eggs away when I find big nests but sorry, not much help. All the best. Sue

Permalink Reply by Hella Coenen on September 22, 2010 at 18:41

Have you heard of getting a dowser to look at your property? Ants breed on crossings of under ground water lines, they thrive on such active energetic areas. These areas can be harmonised in different ways, depending on the dowsers method and expertise.
I had an ant problem once and put copper rods in the ground and connected them with copper wire, over the water line. The ants stopped in front of it and went up the wall and were hanging in a cluster quite confused for a while. So I succeeded, they stopped crawling over the kitchen bench from then on.