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CaliKim: Ants: Double Trouble! How to Control Them in the Vegetable Garden



Ants can be double trouble in a vegetable garden. Here’s why, and how to control them in YOUR garden!
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12 Comments

  1. 🍁 August Grow Your Groceries Subscription Box is here! The theme is “Start Your Fall Garden”. $8 off your first box w/ code “FALLVEGGIES”: https://bit.ly/CaliKimGrowYourGroceriesWithCaliKimSubscriptionBox. FREE BONUS in the August box only: Roo Garden Kneeling Pad. Visit https://roogardening.com/ for hands-free gardening with their roo apron.
    🍅20% off CaliKim Seed Collections, CK Smart Pots, garden kits and my books with code “TINYTIM” at https://calikimgardenandhome.com. Code expires 8/7/23.

  2. I live in Los Angeles, and I used to have the most awful trouble with ants in my garden. They'd use the lemon tree to farm their ant cows, and the poor tree fought them as well. And then the pandemic happened, and within three months the ants disappeared. I mean COMPLETELY. I haven't seen one in three years. I have no idea what happened. I didn't do anything differently; in fact, by that time, I'd given up trying to stop the ants. They just vanished without a trace. It's the weirdest thing I've encountered since I started gardening.

  3. Nice. I had a 5 gallon nursery pot with old soil in it & an apparent ant colony! I used D.E. all over the top. "Set it and forget it"

  4. So very helpful. We have ants covering Red Asian long bean vine with tons of black aphids. Thankful you offered non chemical option approach. How to use DE on a climbing vine plant? Hopeful plant can be saved.

  5. Hello, i have been enjoying learning from tour videos. Im glad you did this topic. I was out in my garden today checking my green babies 😊. Is it natural to have some ants? Or should I kill at the site of an ant?

  6. I have had hardly any Okra. Lots of blooms, tons of ants 🤦‍♀️ I’ve tried DE and using dawn in water. It slowed them down but they came back just as strong. 🤦‍♀️

  7. Thank you! The ants are worse than ever this year in Nor Cal, and likewise the aphids! I've got Diatomaceous Earth, I'll get the Super Soap.

  8. Thanks Kim It seems i have every vermin in my garden it is frustrating! Thanks for your help 😊

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