Things You'll Need
- Vinegar
- Water
- Black pepper
- Baby powder
- Chalk
- Honey
- Corn meal
Instructions
Try a vinegar spray. Mix three parts vinegar with one part warm water, and spray around the perimeter of the garden. If you know where the ant hill is, you can spray the mound directly.
Sprinkle freshly ground black pepper in your garden around your plants. Ants won't cross it, and it doesn’t cause any harm to you plants.
Grind up some chalk, and sprinkle it around the garden. Ants will stay away. If they're already in the garden, use the vinegar and water mixture spray, and once they've gone, use the chalk to keep them out.
Shake out a line of baby powder around the garden. For some reason, ants don't seem to like the smell, and won't go near any part of the garden that has a baby powder smell.
Find the ant hill, and pour corn meal on top of it. Ants will eat the corn meal, but they can't digest it, so they will die. If you hate the idea of killing ants, put a jar of honey in a tree near your garden. The ants will relocate so they can be near the honey, and it will keep them--and you--happy all summer long.