hurrah - hurrah.
Now that I've got that song in your head for the rest of the day - or longer - let me tell you about the little critters in our yard.
We have recurring, regenerating, reanimated, reawakened, reconstructed, reestablishing, renewing, renovated, and often reproduced ant structures around our home, garden and lawn.
As much as I hate chemical pesticides, for fear of them leaching into our drinking water supply - I just have to use them or we'll be infested again and again! Thank goodness most of our issues are outside the home - but once a year in the spring we get a few culprits scouting for goodies from our kitchen window.
I've sprayed Ortho Home Defense around the perimeter of the outside of the home two years in a row, and it's working wonders! A little of the same inside around the kitchen window, and that's all it's taken.
But...outside is an entirely different matter. There appear to be two main types of ants, but there could be a variety of them.
I've now put down some liquid ant bait by Terro near the front pine tree where there appears to be a very large (about a foot in diameter) colony of them...and in the veggie garden where the ants were ready to bite me as I was preparing the ground for planting. Earlier in the spring there was another large mound in our front yard, right in the middle of the grass.
This morning going out to the car, the cracks inside the garage floor are now covered in ant hills. I set another bait just outside the garage, hoping they'll take it back with them to the main nest.
Oh...hurrah...hurrah...
Does anyone have any organic methods for getting rid of ants and other insects?
Julia . . . I would love to hear of any as well . . . for outside . . . safe around grandkids!!!
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