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Our garden is about 16x80 doing good but the ant problem is getting worst every year
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I bet some chickens would put a dent in those ant, it is going down to 3 tonight maybe that will kill ants or plants.
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Arnold, mix up some Malathion a little stronger than they recommend and use a spray bottle. Spray all the little "ant hills" and in a day or two you will see no ants.
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Doug can i spray the plants to or just the ant hills the problem is they go down the middle of the rows where the plants are
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They will all go back to the anthill sooner than later. That is home base. As Doug said always add more than the recommended dosage. The manufacturer doesn't want you to kill them as you could be sued by a left wing Liberal tree hugger
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Well if you dissolve borax and icing suqar into cotton balls and put it near the nest they will pack it down there, probably the least poisoness cocktail.
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I would just spray the ant hill. You could spray the plants but will have to leave them for a few days or up to a week for some plants for the Malathion to dissipate.
There should be enough spray in the "hill" that the ones coming back to it with food for the large will die also.
I used to find them under our shale pavers. I would life them up and there would be lots of them under there with their eggs. One dose and they would all be gone the next day.
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I was wrong about the 3c it went down to 0 and froze last night.
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Just took this pic, in the shade ...7:35pm ish. Garden really suckin' up the water!
A little too much ...almost 40* with the humidity.
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Feels like it could freeze in the Shuswap tonight.
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Hope not but one never knows.
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We were always cautious of frost in the upper Elk Valley until after the first week of June.
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People are trying their luck at hiking...haha. They can't even get into the parking lots without getting stuck. Let alone hike up to 7 feet of snow. -10 for this coming sunday and monday in blue river for those wanting to go sledding. https://www.skiresort.info/ski-resort/mike-wiegele-blue-river/weather/
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Frost hit the garden behind the park.. killed half of it. Global warming my azz
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Well that frosts yer nutz don’t it? Hahaha
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I guess your a lot warmer than here. https://www.msn.com/en-ca/weather/t...orthwestern-ontario/ar-BB15pfOT?ocid=msedgdhp
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Walked into Save On Foods the other day. I didn't know this is how you are supposes to plant carrots.
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