Question for gardeners

[Damifino]

What is your preferred method of fire ant control in the vegetable garden? This year I built a few raised beds and debating on putting fire ant bait in the beds or mixing pyrethrin in a sprayer and spraying them. Need to do something soon.

I use old coffe grounds in my compost pile with good results, should work with your raised beds as well.

 

[jix]

Fire ants : mix 30% Borax powder with 70% sugar. Dissolve in clean water Place in jar lids near ant colony. All ants and nest, eggs, queen ant eradicated in two days, Safe for pets and non toxic to humans. Works every time, if you place it near all colonies. AND it is cheap! Repeat after every rain. Ants will carry it into colony and feed it to larvae and each other, Then DIE!