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Black ants are consistently spoiling my show plants and I dont have any plant disinfectant to protect them .Is there any home remedy to protect plants from black ants?Please help !I cant see my plants dying one by one.:(

2007-02-09 01:58:52 · 8 answers · asked by APNim 2 in Home & Garden Garden & Landscape

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try soaking very hot peppers in water and spray..also check for aphids some ants farm them like we do cows ,they will move them and their eggs around on the plants..good luck!

2007-02-09 02:37:42 · answer #1 · answered by Steve C 5 · 0 0

I suspect aphids not ants are killing your plants the ants come to eat Honeydew (aphid poop). there are many ways to protect your plants from them Read about them in most hardware stores.I like Ortho and Bayer products and I use a systemic that you water in to protect 6weeks from insects and disease. If you are not into chemicals try a tea made from tobacco and water collect old butts and drop them in warm water put the tea into a spray bottle (window cleaner) and spray make sure to spray undersides of the leaves that's where the aphids live,Incidentally you may be able to see them on a dark piece of paper by shaking them from a leaf

2007-02-09 03:58:26 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

2 drops of dish detergent and 1 teaspoon of Cayenne pepper dissolved in 1 quart of water. Spray on plants.
To get rid of the ants permanently, try to locate their 'home' - the ant pile. Then pour 5 lbs of white sugar on top of that. White sugar renders ants sterile, and they can't reproduce. Within a few weeks, the whole colony will die off.

2007-02-09 02:47:15 · answer #3 · answered by flywho 5 · 0 0

Make a citrus oil concoction. you will choose a million pint water, grated rind of a million lemon, cheesecloth, and a pump spray bottle. deliver the water to a boil. get rid of from warmth and upload the grated lemon rind. enable it steep in one day. stress throughout the time of the cheesecloth, and pour into the spray bottle. word this combination rapidly on the ants. this might save them away for a whilst yet they could come back. merely use it back. because of the fact it scent so good, you will no longer concepts. this will additionally do away with aphids and different mushy-bodied bugs, yet you may spray rapidly on the bugs. on condition that I backyard completely organic and organic, i exploit no chemical compounds on something in my backyard or in my residing house. I continually attempt to be friendly to our ecosystem. It choose each and all the help that we can grant it. i'm hoping this helps.

2016-11-02 23:40:21 · answer #4 · answered by boddie 4 · 0 0

The soapy works to get rid of aphids, don't need hot pepper.

Ants are after aphid poop.

Another method of reducing aphids is to use a very low NPK
fertilizers

2007-02-09 06:27:42 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

Some plants need the ants to survive, like peonies, are you sure they are killing them?

2007-02-09 02:02:40 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

sprinkle either Ant Sand or talcum powder around the stems

2007-02-09 19:46:29 · answer #7 · answered by Val K 4 · 0 0

try turmuric powder

2007-02-09 02:03:17 · answer #8 · answered by ajayv9 2 · 0 0

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