I take my shovel and scoop up a bit of one ant mound and drop it on top of the ant colony that is in my way and they kill each other. And the ones I moved go back to where I scooped them up from, after they done warring it out.
If you sprinkle grits all around where they roam, they will carry them back to the queen. They all eat them, and they bloat to death. It expands in their gut.
For ants use Diatomaceous Earth *Food Grade! Make sure you pull back the mulch and apply it then cover area back up so that it doesn't kill your bees or butterflies.
I have a pretty sure fire trick… But I live in a much drier climate. CORNMEAL poured on the ground or on the hill. The ants eat the cornmeal, the cornmeal expands in their stomach and causes them to explode. A little brutal but it works like a charm. Usually the corn meal is dry enough that they have time to take it back to the queen. Good luck!
Question for you. Where did you get the bulk decals for the transplant pots? It’s a vlog you did 7 months ago. The content was how to profit selling plants. You got 1,000 decals to put on each pot. Excellent idea! We sell transplants and that adds a nice touch. Thank you! Great vlog! So happy for y’all! A new adventure!
Best ant killer without damaging the soil is 1oz orange essential oil 1 Tablespoon dawn dish soap 5 oz of water and garret juice fertilizer as directed spray and repeat
Hey Jill , Plant those beans in the tunnel and you will have beans girl... Good luck with your grow. I like you planted a bunch of yellow beans and snow peas in the garden and I am going to do a lot of prayers for them and all of us growers.. Amen
I use DE whenever I find ants in my raised beds. They are gone within a few hours, and they haven't been back. I even had a nest with larva and I pulled back the dirt and sprinkled it on them and around the bottom outside of my raised bed. That has worked for me and I don't have to worry about my dogs getting sick if they were to get in and lick it. Keep it away from flowers for the pollinators.
MI gardener gave his advice to me for ants. You find the hills and mix one part borax and one part sugar and add only enough water to make a paste and put it all around the hill. It worked for me.
New Gardner here in Arizona. I have multiple different types of ant hills. They are all over my plants, I was under the impression they are going after the aphids etc and that I should leave them alone…. Is that bad advice???
@@sherriwelsch5009 Ants may be going after the aphids but that could be in the form of actually farming the aphids. I don't treat for ants - but I do hose off the aphids with a strong stream of water or squash the aphids with my gloved fingers.
@@sharonmiller758 I was using neem oil,dish soap and H20 mixture but with the Az heat it was burning my plants. I’m about to just pull most of them, and start prepping for the fall.
@@bywateracres I disagree I garden in the South and ants will light you up once one bites they all start its not just fire ants so how do you have any expectation of a garden when you can't get in the garden...
@@sharonmiller758 same. I try to let nature be as much as possible. I may pick off hornworms (and relocate) and blast water on aphids but for the most part I try to let bugs be. Your garden wants to be a happy ecosystem and that means good and bad bugs. I always try to plant a few sacrificial plants just for them.
Jill, get the gloves from Hoss Tools. I don't wear gloves either, but when needed the Hoss gloves fit snugly and give you control of what you're doing without being cumbersome with extra cloth and feeling "floppy". They're also perfectly lightly padded in all the right places to protect your hands. Good luck! I'm rooting for your success!!
Isn’t it wonderful that you can go back and watch Jess‘s videos and find out exactly when she was planting things! Such a bonus for such a beautiful farm.
We had a couple of major ant colonies in our back yard, I took a strong mixture of vinegar water and poured it directly down into the holes where the ants were coming from. That was several years ago and I have seen any in that area since. Don't know what exactly it did but it worked.
The safest ant method I've found is to take a scoop of ants from one hill and drop it on another hill. It starts an ant civil war and the targeted hill will go away.
RE: Ants.......Stefan Sobkowiak of The Permaculture Orchard said in his video that ants in the garden soil are an indicator that the soil is too sandy and too dry--even if the soil is clay, it's still too dry. He also said that it's true that ants herd aphids. He said that aphids are an indicator of soil fertility imbalance usually the result of an excess of nitrogen. I hope this helps you because ants do seem to take over everything once they show up!
Boil baking soda in water and pour it over your bed it will get rid of them. But you just put your seed start keep a spray bottle with 1 part baking soda 3 parts warm water and spray where ever you see ants and it will not hurt the garden. I ordered some magnets and a butterfly pin and stickers can't wait to get them!! I am so excited for your family!
I love!!!! The way you save your bean seeds! Every year I have hundreds of volunteer tomatoes that come up and I just move them around to where I want them to grow. We started tomatoes for the first time 6 years ago and they have all cross pollinated and just have become these awesome crossed varieties. I can count on them year after year🤣
Sprinkle cinnamon powder directly in/on the soil, it’s a natural insect repellent. You can do it for house plants as well to repel fruit flies from laying eggs in your soil!
It seems like Jessica was able to successfully grow cabbages, cauliflower and Brussels sprouts in the high tunnel well into winter last year so you may be able to direct sow and just wait a little longer for harvest. I look forward to see your success.
Orange oil will kill ants, it breaks down their exoskeleton, we had fire ants really bad when we first moved to our new property that was a year ago, we rarely find them now!
@@rhondasorrells5435we mixed it with water Anda little castile soap and just sprayed it around our garden, flower beds, and we poured it into the ant hills in the yard, hope that helps!
I live in the country too, KY. Ants are a pain, my secrete sounds odd, but works great! Original FEBREEZE "my hero" air freshener spray kills ants on contact, and also deters from others coming and replacing them. Spray around counters, edges, boarders, hills. Hope this helps. Love your channel!
Hey! Great video! In case no one mentioned it, the blackberries could be everbearing, which means they will bloom til frost! My neighbor has blackberries and raspberries and let me pick all of them! The blackberries have been huge this year! I've got gallons in my freezer! Think I'll try radishes and more lettuce in the stalk!
I worked in childcare and bought the least expensive cinnamon I could find and put it in the sandbox and on any ant hills that popped up. It works great and smells good also 🙂
I sprinkle raw grits on & around red ant mounds. 99% of times the ants will feed to the queen, it expands in the belly killing them. The colony will die. Inexpensive & safe way to manage ant problems. I live 1 hour below New Orleans.
Hi guys! I'm down in North Charleston, & our first frost date is Nov. 24. Last year it frosted 12/2 & 3!! I've got beans going, too!! Also peppers, tomatoes, & egg plant. I can only garden on my porch, but I'm doing what I can where I am!! Thanks for keeping us posted!!
We have a raised garden bed and the ants were taking over...we made a solid pretty thick line of baking soda around all the outside edges and we did get rid of the ants. We did reapply when it rained but did not take long to eradicate the ant issue....we also used chalk all around the outside of the garden....did not want to put it anywhere with food we wanted to eat , hence the baking soda for the actual food bearing places.
Take a shovel and scoop the ants from one area and dump them on another ant hill. They will kill each other and greatly diminish the ant population. They will eventually come back, at least they do for me but I think that's because of the shredded mulch I get every year for the flower beds. Good luck! 😀👍
For ants we make a mixture of borax in water with some sugar and pieces of lunch meat in an old plastic container with a lid on it ( so cats and dogs don’t get into it) with holes big enough for ants to get into it just above the waterline. The ants take it back to the nest and in a few days colony usually goes away.
First like JAAAY 😃 Love that you just took the beans of and planted them! I did this but mostly because of my neglect in terms of cleaning of the trellis 😄
I am assuming that you have fireants??? I'm south of you and I agree with the ones who said orange oil.... been using it about 5 years and it's never failed me! For YOUR ant bites: buy a bottle of wintergreen alcohol and a small bottle of regular asprin (I buy Walmart brand) and a small plastic spray bottle. Mix wintergreen alcohol and 25 asprin together in spray bottle. Shake up and keep on hand for any bug bites. If you can spray within 1 hour of being bit it will take the sting out.
I don't have a solution for the ants in your garden, but I do for your bites! Good old fashioned listerine, the gold colored. Apply as soon as you get bit and they won't fester up either! Best of luck!!
Awwh you're wc!! I actually "met" you on roots and refuge (hope I got that in order) lol I enjoyed the video with you girls discussing the transitions that was taking place. I am pulling for both of your families and I just know that you both will do well!! God bless y'all 🙂
Jill loving the Hat x i miss our Garden so much,. I had Major Hip Joint Replacement Syrgery 3 weeks ago so i am at Home Recovering not being able to do naff all. My Hubs is looking after me so well x We have Ants even.on the Roses all our Plants and Flowers are in Pots lol..they get everywhere x
Hey neighbor! I live in Vilonia. I have actually found broccoli,cabbage and cauliflower starts out this week at our nurseries and box stores. I missed out on starting the Brussels this year too.
I sprinkle cinnamon on the floor in my greenhouse. It works to get rid of those pesky ants, and it smells great. And my trick for planting carrots seeds is white sand. I mix my seeds in a cup of sand and sprinkle that. It has always helps to spread them, and the wind doesn't take them while I'm planting!
I tried something new this year you take dirt from one ant hill and put it on another and then take the dirt from that ant hill and put it back on the one that you just took it from and that kind it does something to him I don’t know what it was less chemicals in my yard
Nate asked you what plant was under the bean trellis & you both said a weed and it was in all the beds. However it is Purslane. Check it out. Edible! Free food.
I have heard sprinkling grits around nests and they will eat them and of course grits get bigger when they combine with liquid which will kill the ants
Leaves are changing colors and a few falling in New Hampshire (5a) also. It’s so sad since my “summer” garden is now finally starting to take off hahaha
I have seen several post about the confections sugar, borax, water mixture. I used some lids from juice bottles pushed in level with the soil and then I put a small terracotta saucer or small bowl over to keep rain from washing it away. I changed it out about once a week. I have them in all my beds. This has worked pretty well but I did have one giant infestation in a bed that I finally bought ant bait killer by terro. I did the same thing with those traps , set them around in the bed with a heavy cover and left little tunnel access on each side and it worked and I did not contaminate my soil. Also, carrots.... after you water the seeds in, lay a 1x4 or 2x4 board over them for a week to 2 weeks. When you see the seeds sprouting remove the board. This keeps them from blowing or washing away.
my husband said mix two tsp of boric acid to about 3 cups of apple Juice and mix well then put on some lids and set them out in your Garden and that should take care of your ant problem
It sounds like fire ants are your problem. We have them everywhere too. If they go into my beds I will take a stick and disrupt the nest (good stir). They will move on to somewhere else. They do have a place in the eco system. As you get used to the new area you will find yourself looking were you step or place your hands. You’ve got this!
Nice video, my corn did not do good, few ears and only the chickens will enjoy, beans never mind....We got a weird season here the South west Ohio. Enjoy your new Farm.
So I’ve tried to start beans.... like 4 times now! The stupid rolly pollies eat them as soon as they sprout! They are in a raised bed that we put old logs in the bottom of 2 years ago, so I’m sure that’s where they are coming from but I can’t seem to get them under control. There are so many it looks like the ground is moving around the plants at night! I’ve tried DE, and thieves cleaner with peppermint. 🤷🏼♀️
If you do like Tiffany Xo says but get some of those store bought small plastic containers that blueberries come in and some cotton balls you can mix you some borax and sugar water and soak the cotton balls in the water mixture and then place inside the plastic container close the lid and the bees can't get in and the small wholes in the container provides a way for the ants to move in and out. I also use food grade Diatomaceous Earth but you can only use that when its dry outside. Much Love and Blessings
Cinnamon has actually helped me combat a bad ant problem I had. Spent a whole year suffering before I was told about it, then bam! They were gone within a week! Just make sure you use a goid amount of it right on top of the ant holes
Jill, Try mixing equal parts of baking soda and sugar. place in lids near mounds. the idea is that they are attracted to the sugar but the baking soda drys out their insides similar to DE. I hate fire ants. so glad when we moved to Ky they are not here. I read this tip online and I hope it works for you. I still have scars around ankles from Fire ants in Texas.
Get you some of the gloves that are kind of rubbery and fit against your skin. I used to hate gloves but can wear those. They also keep your hands dry and because they fit the skin, you can feel the seeds and they don’t slide off.
When my husband says he’ll help in the garden that means he will keep me company and watch me work.
Lol.
lol same or he is busy eating the cherry tomatoes. lol
The truest statement ever written on UA-cam lol
I take my shovel and scoop up a bit of one ant mound and drop it on top of the ant colony that is in my way and they kill each other. And the ones I moved go back to where I scooped them up from, after they done warring it out.
Ok Jill you talked me into it. I’m planting another round of beans! 🤣
I use cinnamon all around my house where ants come in. Also around my bee hives.
It’s going to be a lovely harvest 💕 it’s nice to grow a bit of everything 🥬
If you sprinkle grits all around where they roam, they will carry them back to the queen. They all eat them, and they bloat to death. It expands in their gut.
@Thunder Rolls Media I wonder if this would work for flea beetles?
For ants use Diatomaceous Earth *Food Grade! Make sure you pull back the mulch and apply it then cover area back up so that it doesn't kill your bees or butterflies.
So exciting to watch the beginning of you making this space all yours 💕
You're right about the blackberries! When they are dull they are ripe. ; )
We used to have an ant problem with them
coming in our house. We got food grade diatomaceous earth and put it anywhere we saw them. They’re gone now!
I have a pretty sure fire trick… But I live in a much drier climate. CORNMEAL poured on the ground or on the hill. The ants eat the cornmeal, the cornmeal expands in their stomach and causes them to explode. A little brutal but it works like a charm. Usually the corn meal is dry enough that they have time to take it back to the queen. Good luck!
I love the wonder grip nearly naked gloves. You can’t even tell you’re wearing them!
You could also throw a sheet over the trellis if it’s going to frost!
Yess👍🇭🇲
Question for you. Where did you get the bulk decals for the transplant pots? It’s a vlog you did 7 months ago. The content was how to profit selling plants. You got 1,000 decals to put on each pot. Excellent idea! We sell transplants and that adds a nice touch. Thank you! Great vlog! So happy for y’all! A new adventure!
Best ant killer without damaging the soil is 1oz orange essential oil 1 Tablespoon dawn dish soap 5 oz of water and garret juice fertilizer as directed spray and repeat
Hey Jill , Plant those beans in the tunnel and you will have beans girl... Good luck with your grow. I like you planted a bunch of yellow beans and snow peas in the garden and I am going to do a lot of prayers for them and all of us growers.. Amen
I use DE whenever I find ants in my raised beds. They are gone within a few hours, and they haven't been back. I even had a nest with larva and I pulled back the dirt and sprinkled it on them and around the bottom outside of my raised bed. That has worked for me and I don't have to worry about my dogs getting sick if they were to get in and lick it. Keep it away from flowers for the pollinators.
This is what I do!! I moved last fall and my new garden had tons of ants. One DE treatment and they were gone 👍
MI gardener gave his advice to me for ants. You find the hills and mix one part borax and one part sugar and add only enough water to make a paste and put it all around the hill. It worked for me.
New Gardner here in Arizona. I have multiple different types of ant hills. They are all over my plants, I was under the impression they are going after the aphids etc and that I should leave them alone…. Is that bad advice???
@@sherriwelsch5009 Ants may be going after the aphids but that could be in the form of actually farming the aphids. I don't treat for ants - but I do hose off the aphids with a strong stream of water or squash the aphids with my gloved fingers.
@@sharonmiller758 I was using neem oil,dish soap and H20 mixture but with the Az heat it was burning my plants. I’m about to just pull most of them, and start prepping for the fall.
@@bywateracres I disagree I garden in the South and ants will light you up once one bites they all start its not just fire ants so how do you have any expectation of a garden when you can't get in the garden...
@@sharonmiller758 same. I try to let nature be as much as possible. I may pick off hornworms (and relocate) and blast water on aphids but for the most part I try to let bugs be. Your garden wants to be a happy ecosystem and that means good and bad bugs. I always try to plant a few sacrificial plants just for them.
Jill, get the gloves from Hoss Tools. I don't wear gloves either, but when needed the Hoss gloves fit snugly and give you control of what you're doing without being cumbersome with extra cloth and feeling "floppy". They're also perfectly lightly padded in all the right places to protect your hands. Good luck! I'm rooting for your success!!
I love that you’re real about the plant starts that died. We had family things come up and mine died too… glad I’m not alone!
Isn’t it wonderful that you can go back and watch Jess‘s videos and find out exactly when she was planting things! Such a bonus for such a beautiful farm.
I love the stickers. 😁👍
We had a couple of major ant colonies in our back yard, I took a strong mixture of vinegar water and poured it directly down into the holes where the ants were coming from. That was several years ago and I have seen any in that area since. Don't know what exactly it did but it worked.
I use peppermint essential oil in my raised bed gardens to combat ants.
I love seeing you plant in your new garden,
The safest ant method I've found is to take a scoop of ants from one hill and drop it on another hill. It starts an ant civil war and the targeted hill will go away.
There was a video that Jess and Miah said this was the most successful way to get rid of the ants. Let them battle it out.
@@lesliee6721 I wonder if thsts where I got the idea? Haha
Good to know
Ants don't like anything in the mint family. Including peppermint essential oil. I simply mix it withe water and spray it on the surface.
RE: Ants.......Stefan Sobkowiak of The Permaculture Orchard said in his video that ants in the garden soil are an indicator that the soil is too sandy and too dry--even if the soil is clay, it's still too dry. He also said that it's true that ants herd aphids. He said that aphids are an indicator of soil fertility imbalance usually the result of an excess of nitrogen. I hope this helps you because ants do seem to take over everything once they show up!
Boil baking soda in water and pour it over your bed it will get rid of them. But you just put your seed start keep a spray bottle with 1 part baking soda 3 parts warm water and spray where ever you see ants and it will not hurt the garden. I ordered some magnets and a butterfly pin and stickers can't wait to get them!! I am so excited for your family!
You look so cute with the gloves. What a sweet husband ❤️
I love!!!! The way you save your bean seeds! Every year I have hundreds of volunteer tomatoes that come up and I just move them around to where I want them to grow. We started tomatoes for the first time 6 years ago and they have all cross pollinated and just have become these awesome crossed varieties. I can count on them year after year🤣
Your husband is so sweet looking out for you mine tries the same thing but comes out seeming like a father figure
Yay for your first Fall plantings!
Sprinkle cinnamon powder directly in/on the soil, it’s a natural insect repellent. You can do it for house plants as well to repel fruit flies from laying eggs in your soil!
It seems like Jessica was able to successfully grow cabbages, cauliflower and Brussels sprouts in the high tunnel well into winter last year so you may be able to direct sow and just wait a little longer for harvest. I look forward to see your success.
Those were the biggest ladies gloves I’ve ever seen! Oh well, it’s the thought that counts 😁
Now I need to figure out how to make hoops with 9 gauge wire!
I'm so excited to see your garden grow!
Dill blackberry is ripe
Contender green bean is a 40 harvest day bush bean
God bless all
Orange oil will kill ants, it breaks down their exoskeleton, we had fire ants really bad when we first moved to our new property that was a year ago, we rarely find them now!
Straight on beds or mixing it with something
Will orange oil kill scorpions?
@@rhondasorrells5435we mixed it with water Anda little castile soap and just sprayed it around our garden, flower beds, and we poured it into the ant hills in the yard, hope that helps!
@@gailrothermund9209 I have no idea if it works on scorpions, sorry
I live in the country too, KY. Ants are a pain, my secrete sounds odd, but works great! Original FEBREEZE "my hero" air freshener spray kills ants on contact, and also deters from others coming and replacing them. Spray around counters, edges, boarders, hills. Hope this helps. Love your channel!
Pour salt heavily around the ant hills it melts them
I bought pelleted carrot seeds from Hoss this year. It made it so much easier to sow them-no thinning and they all came up beautifully.
Hey! Great video! In case no one mentioned it, the blackberries could be everbearing, which means they will bloom til frost! My neighbor has blackberries and raspberries and let me pick all of them! The blackberries have been huge this year! I've got gallons in my freezer! Think I'll try radishes and more lettuce in the stalk!
Such a blessing to know that I am not the only one that misses the timing on seed planting. Good luck to us all.
Borax and sugar with a little water to make a paste
Your rings are beautiful! I don’t think I’ve noticed you wearing them before
That garden looks good on you!
Good morning 🌞
Looking good on your new farm! Can't wait to see all the things
Borax and sugar paste. Fill a small water bottle and cut a hole in the side. Lay bottle horizontally in soil👍
I like the nitrile gloves. They are easier to work in.
I worked in childcare and bought the least expensive cinnamon I could find and put it in the sandbox and on any ant hills that popped up. It works great and smells good also 🙂
Adorable in the chapeau btw!
I sprinkle raw grits on & around red ant mounds. 99% of times the ants will feed to the queen, it expands in the belly killing them. The colony will die. Inexpensive & safe way to manage ant problems. I live 1 hour below New Orleans.
Nice
Hi guys! I'm down in North Charleston, & our first frost date is Nov. 24. Last year it frosted 12/2 & 3!! I've got beans going, too!! Also peppers, tomatoes, & egg plant. I can only garden on my porch, but I'm doing what I can where I am!! Thanks for keeping us posted!!
Thank you.
We have a raised garden bed and the ants were taking over...we made a solid pretty thick line of baking soda around all the outside edges and we did get rid of the ants. We did reapply when it rained but did not take long to eradicate the ant issue....we also used chalk all around the outside of the garden....did not want to put it anywhere with food we wanted to eat , hence the baking soda for the actual food bearing places.
Take a shovel and scoop the ants from one area and dump them on another ant hill. They will kill each other and greatly diminish the ant population. They will eventually come back, at least they do for me but I think that's because of the shredded mulch I get every year for the flower beds. Good luck! 😀👍
For ants we make a mixture of borax in water with some sugar and pieces of lunch meat in an old plastic container with a lid on it ( so cats and dogs don’t get into it) with holes big enough for ants to get into it just above the waterline. The ants take it back to the nest and in a few days colony usually goes away.
First like JAAAY 😃
Love that you just took the beans of and planted them!
I did this but mostly because of my neglect in terms of cleaning of the trellis 😄
I am assuming that you have fireants??? I'm south of you and I agree with the ones who said orange oil.... been using it about 5 years and it's never failed me!
For YOUR ant bites: buy a bottle of wintergreen alcohol and a small bottle of regular asprin (I buy Walmart brand) and a small plastic spray bottle. Mix wintergreen alcohol and 25 asprin together in spray bottle. Shake up and keep on hand for any bug bites. If you can spray within 1 hour of being bit it will take the sting out.
Love your new space. ❤ I pick my blackberries once they are dark and shiny
I don't have a solution for the ants in your garden, but I do for your bites! Good old fashioned listerine, the gold colored. Apply as soon as you get bit and they won't fester up either! Best of luck!!
Thanks for the tip
Awwh you're wc!! I actually "met" you on roots and refuge (hope I got that in order) lol
I enjoyed the video with you girls discussing the transitions that was taking place. I am pulling for both of your families and I just know that you both will do well!!
God bless y'all 🙂
Jill loving the Hat x i miss our Garden so much,. I had Major Hip Joint Replacement Syrgery 3 weeks ago so i am at Home Recovering not being able to do naff all. My Hubs is looking after me so well x We have Ants even.on the Roses all our Plants and Flowers are in Pots lol..they get everywhere x
Hey neighbor! I live in Vilonia. I have actually found broccoli,cabbage and cauliflower starts out this week at our nurseries and box stores. I missed out on starting the Brussels this year too.
I sprinkle cinnamon on the floor in my greenhouse. It works to get rid of those pesky ants, and it smells great. And my trick for planting carrots seeds is white sand. I mix my seeds in a cup of sand and sprinkle that. It has always helps to spread them, and the wind doesn't take them while I'm planting!
I tried something new this year you take dirt from one ant hill and put it on another and then take the dirt from that ant hill and put it back on the one that you just took it from and that kind it does something to him I don’t know what it was less chemicals in my yard
Blackberries are sweet when they’re dull.
Nate asked you what plant was under the bean trellis & you both said a weed and it was in all the beds. However it is Purslane. Check it out. Edible! Free food.
Aspartame (Equal) kills ants...they take it back to their nests. Also Plantain spray is good for ant bites, especially fire ants.
Food grade diatomaceous earth works great for getting rid of ants.
So much space to grow! Looking forward to seeing your Fall garden!
White vinegar and water 50/50 in a spray bottle for ants
I have heard sprinkling grits around nests and they will eat them and of course grits get bigger when they combine with liquid which will kill the ants
Sure could plant more beans mine didn’t do good . And here in Michigan to late ugh . It’ll be ok 👌🏼 I still have green beans from last yr
Hey just a suggestion Atlas gloves are the best gardening gloves 🙌🏼 tight and feel like skin 😊
I'm in 5b New York and the leaves are falling off the trees
Very interesting! I'm in zone 4b central Wisconsin and our leaves are still hanging on but slightly changing a lighter green.
Leaves are changing colors and a few falling in New Hampshire (5a) also. It’s so sad since my “summer” garden is now finally starting to take off hahaha
@@Lisatopgoatfarm I feel ya I'm debating if I should've even planted for fall
Marcia here, 5b MI leaves changing
I’ve heard if you boil rhubarb leaves down and pour the liquid on the ant hills it will kill them.
If you pour boiling water down ant beds by its self it will kill them, I’ve been doing it for years
Borax with sugar/water in shallow containers with ant size openings, place near where you are seeing the ant den
I have seen several post about the confections sugar, borax, water mixture. I used some lids from juice bottles pushed in level with the soil and then I put a small terracotta saucer or small bowl over to keep rain from washing it away. I changed it out about once a week. I have them in all my beds. This has worked pretty well but I did have one giant infestation in a bed that I finally bought ant bait killer by terro. I did the same thing with those traps , set them around in the bed with a heavy cover and left little tunnel access on each side and it worked and I did not contaminate my soil.
Also, carrots.... after you water the seeds in, lay a 1x4 or 2x4 board over them for a week to 2 weeks. When you see the seeds sprouting remove the board. This keeps them from blowing or washing away.
You got it, dull is ripe and shiny is still tart.. from blackberry land in Oregon
If you look at the history of frost through Jess's old videos, it was usually late October/early November
my husband said mix two tsp of boric acid to about 3 cups of apple Juice and mix well then put on some lids and set them out in your Garden and that should take care of your ant problem
It sounds like fire ants are your problem. We have them everywhere too. If they go into my beds I will take a stick and disrupt the nest (good stir). They will move on to somewhere else. They do have a place in the eco system.
As you get used to the new area you will find yourself looking were you step or place your hands. You’ve got this!
Eco: ants don't like powdered cinnamon. Sprinkle the beds and they will go elsewhere. Blackberry dull sweet, shine they are bitter still.
Thanks 😁
Such great fall gardening advice! Thanks❤
Blackberries will be sweetest when they lose their shine, and are a little dull.
Nice video, my corn did not do good, few ears and only the chickens will enjoy, beans never mind....We got a weird season here the South west Ohio. Enjoy your new Farm.
So I’ve tried to start beans.... like 4 times now! The stupid rolly pollies eat them as soon as they sprout! They are in a raised bed that we put old logs in the bottom of 2 years ago, so I’m sure that’s where they are coming from but I can’t seem to get them under control. There are so many it looks like the ground is moving around the plants at night! I’ve tried DE, and thieves cleaner with peppermint. 🤷🏼♀️
I used diatomaceous earth to get rid of ants, and it worked great! 🐜
If you do like Tiffany Xo says but get some of those store bought small plastic containers that blueberries come in and some cotton balls you can mix you some borax and sugar water and soak the cotton balls in the water mixture and then place inside the plastic container close the lid and the bees can't get in and the small wholes in the container provides a way for the ants to move in and out. I also use food grade Diatomaceous Earth but you can only use that when its dry outside. Much Love and Blessings
Cinnamon has actually helped me combat a bad ant problem I had. Spent a whole year suffering before I was told about it, then bam! They were gone within a week! Just make sure you use a goid amount of it right on top of the ant holes
Kept waiting for Nate to share the berries with you.
It will take some getting used to, seeing you and Nathan in 'Jessica's' garden. I know you'll make it your own. Hope your girls are enjoying it 🌻
put some vitamin e oil on the bites and they will go away pretty quick. normally I'd recommend DE for the ants, but it's too wet there. no idea.
Jill, Try mixing equal parts of baking soda and sugar. place in lids near mounds. the idea is that they are attracted to the sugar but the baking soda drys out their insides similar to DE. I hate fire ants. so glad when we moved to Ky they are not here. I read this tip online and I hope it works for you. I still have scars around ankles from Fire ants in Texas.
For ants, I sprinkle cinnamon on my soil and sometimes even on my plants. It seems to help deter them.
Get you some of the gloves that are kind of rubbery and fit against your skin. I used to hate gloves but can wear those. They also keep your hands dry and because they fit the skin, you can feel the seeds and they don’t slide off.
I was looking for an answer to the ant problem and I am going to try diatomaceous earth.