To combat ants, you can choose to buy expensive products. However, there are many nature-friendly methods that are just as effective in your fight against ants...
If you are bothered by ants, there is a plant-based solution to your problem. If calendula, African marigolds, mint, lavender, tansy, or chives are planted near the area where the ants are causing a nuisance, the ants will prefer to take a detour. Ants hate the smell of these plants.
You can also choose to spray a line of lemon dish soap over the spot where they keep coming from; they really won't be anywhere to be found the next day.
Another eco-friendly tip for ants in the garden: pour liters of boiling water over the nest entrances for several days in a row. You really do need liters for this, because the tunnels are very long. This is a very effective method to see the entire colony disappear! If you have a tap with boiling water, use a garden hose and let the water flow over the nest for an hour. Just keep your children and pets away for a while so they don't burn themselves!
If you are bothered by ants, you can stretch copper wire across the door threshold. Ants cannot cross copper.
To drive ants away, pour the used dishwater over the area where they are, and they will be gone. If that doesn't work the first time, repeat several times. It always works for me.
This tip really works for ants. Sprinkle coffee grounds (straight from the filter) on the ant trail or exit. Do the same against your exterior doors and walls... after one or two days the ants will be gone. You can then simply sweep it up (if necessary). Coffee grounds also help against slugs on your plants: just throw coffee grounds on the ground around the plant!
If you are bothered by a lot of ants, sprinkle some talcum powder on the nests; the ants hate it when the powder gets on their legs and wings. After a few days, they will be practically gone. Do repeat after rain.
With a 5-cent euro coin, you keep ants at bay. Place a coin (or several) by the doorway, and the ants will prefer to stay outside.
Place a few cloves where the ants enter; the ants will avoid this place.
Cut open a clove of garlic and place it by the nest.
Put some salt on an ant nest, almost all the ants will come out, and then pour boiling hot water over them. Do this 1 or 2 times and it works; we don't have any more trouble with them.
Sprinkle washing powder on the ants' path and you won't see any of them return.
If you have a problem with ants in the kitchen, you should sprinkle a line of ground cinnamon in the corners and edges of your baseboards, as well as on the outside of your door threshold; ants hate the smell of cinnamon.
Take an onion, cut some cubes, and place them where they go inside.
Sprinkle nutmeg on the ant trail: ants don't like it and really stay away; probably just like with cinnamon, they don't like the smell.
The garden is outside, and ants live there too. But you don't want them inside. It is possible to set a boundary that the ants cannot cross. Draw a continuous chalk line on the tiles in the garden or on the patio. Just use plain white blackboard chalk. This way, the ants can march around freely outside, but cannot set up their encampment inside.
HOWEVER, NEVER WORK WITH YEAST: if you mix honey, jam, or other sweet things with flour or yeast... you might get rid of the ants, but bees and pets will also die as a result! The honey makes it sweet and therefore tasty for the ants, but also for bees and pets... The flour contains yeast. If this is subsequently eaten, the yeast will do its work and ferment, causing the animals to die.
ALSO BE CAREFUL WITH BROWN SUGAR: Ants pounce on brown sugar, but the brown sugar also ferments in their stomachs. Not good for the ants, but also not good for the bees, of which there are already so few!
Ants can spread acid when threatened. I pour vinegar into the exits (repeat a few times); they really dislike this and move on for good. Environmentally friendly! If you put the same vinegar and water in a spray bottle, you can sprinkle the window frames and doorways with it: a very effective method to keep the ants out!
And of course, don't forget: a clean kitchen doesn't invite a single ant! If you make the countertop spotless again after every meal, do the dishes, quickly mop the floor, and banish all food scraps to the (well-sealed) trash can or the refrigerator, the ants won't find any food there and will stay away!
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