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Ant nests all over lawn
Allotment Boy
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I don't usually bother much with the ants on the lawn, we do get a green woodpecker sometimes so I usually leave them alone. However today I have counted nearly 20 piles of soil all over the lawn & its all ant activity. The "lawn" is not that big slightly under 80 sq yds. I use Nippon gel for ants that are too near/ in the house.
What would others do?
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I encourage wild predators to forage & water the area with ant nests, they like dry soil so will soon move on. It does seem a particularly bad year for them though..
Last edited: 23 August 2017 15:40:08
Water them generously ... they'll move on ... make sure you water your pots and containers too so they don't move in there.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Thanks I will give it a try but I am not optimistic as I had Ants in one of my potted plants & even flooding & draining repeatedly did not work. I had to resort to the gel.
We have loads of hard ant mounds all over the front lawn. My dad's at a loss about what to do. He gets really annoyed when mowing the lawn. I read somewhere you can pour vinegar on them but I'm not sure if it harms them. Apparently it doesn't harm the lawn. Never tried it.
Vinegar is acetic acid ... I don't like the thought of pouring acid onto living creatures ... let alone all those important micro-bugs in the soil
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I know there is a nematode you can use this does not kill them but apparently they will not tolerate them near the nest so they move. My issue is I don't want to drive them off the grass & into the house!
Dove I agree some of these old remedies are worse than the modern chemicals we are all trying to avoid!