How to protect your garden from ants and aphids: a folk method

05.06.2024 18:46

Summer residents know very well that after ants appear in the garden or vegetable garden, aphids inevitably appear.

This is why such a fight is waged against ants, despite the fact that many are in no hurry to classify hardworking insects as pests.

If ants have appeared in the garden bed, then you still need to figure out how to drive them out of there without using chemicals.

Someone suggests pouring boiling water, there are even more interesting options, but more on that another time.

The dacha community has long been addicted to the following method of protecting cultural plantings.

Ants
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How to proceed

Mix one teaspoon of boric acid with one teaspoon of sugar.

The resulting mixture must be added to the minced meat, rolled into small balls and scattered near the ant colony.

The pests will disappear in the shortest possible time.

This same remedy can be called a preventative measure against the appearance of aphids.

Aphids pose a threat to any plant, but young and weakened crops suffer most from their attacks.

Earlier we talked about plants that improve soil quality .

Igor Zur Author: Igor Zur Internet resource editor