This was my clematis a couple of years ago. This year - dead as a doornail! Suspect - ants!! Ants are destroying my gardens. Does anyone have a solution to keep ants from building their nests under my prime flowers? And, to make matters worse, while pulling out my poor dead clematis vines, I was stung by a bee. Someone, please - remind me why we do this??
January 2007
Saturday, May 1, 2010
Another victim of ants
This was my clematis a couple of years ago. This year - dead as a doornail! Suspect - ants!! Ants are destroying my gardens. Does anyone have a solution to keep ants from building their nests under my prime flowers? And, to make matters worse, while pulling out my poor dead clematis vines, I was stung by a bee. Someone, please - remind me why we do this??
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Try sprinkling Borax (20 Mule Team) around the base. It's non toxic to us, but toxic to ants. They get it on themselves and then when grooming, ingest it. I use it in our house to get rid of them.
ReplyDeleteWon't Borax hurt the plants? I sprinkled it on my grass last year on top of an ant nest and it killed the grass. The grass still hasn't come back.
ReplyDeleteI feel for you. It also makes me feel, somehow, by reading others pests problems, a lot better in that I'm not alone. My major problem is squirrels and I'm just finding that there are going to be whole classes of plants I cannot plant. argh.
ReplyDeleteGood luck on their removal. We have fire ants here bad (though I don't) and I know there are specific poisons for them that are made for lawns... maybe those would work?
My whole acre is one giant ant hill. Even poison didn't help.
ReplyDeleteIt's always fun to find another CNY blogger!