Spring has arrived at Backyard Gardening Tips and we are getting tons of requests about how to rid their yard and homes of ants and their anthills.

Anthills seem to sneak up on home owners. One day there are no ants and then BAM they are everywhere and in everything. Then the anthill starts growing on a daily basis.

As a kid I used to fried the ants with my magnifying glass. I think little boys are about the only people who like ants because they fry so well.

Remedies that cause tiny ant explosions.

Baking soda and icing sugar.

The ever hungry ants come out of their anthill homes to find sweet treats to eat. Knowing this you can feed them baking soda and icing sugar which will cause them to bloat and die.

Note: There may be a slight explosion just before they bother you no longer.

As the ants eat the icing sugar they can't help getting enough of the baking soda to start the reaction and soon you will no longer have any live ants.

A benefit to this method is that they will carry it back to their dining room below ground so you may not see any ants dead or alive.

You can do the trick with a mix of about 50/50 baking soda to icing sugar.

We make a shaker using a bottle. We just poke a few holes in the lid and we're ready to eliminate the enemy. It's quick and easy.

Using Cornmeal or Grits

This years we gave cornmeal a try. Ants just seem to love corn but they can't digest the cornmeal and starve to death or bloat up and die. Either way it works great.

People further south than we are in New Brunswick tend to use grits where we tend to use cornmeal. They both get the job done by putting the pressure on from inside out.

The ants love it, eat it like little piggies and promptly explode.

Get your ants to move next door.

Lime has a tendency to burn so don't get it on your skin. Well the ants don't like it at all and will get as far away from it as possible. An application of lime over your entire lawn area will work for the entire year.

Another use for baby power.

We no longer have kids so the only use we had for the baby powder was to smooth the hands playing nine ball but now we can use it to deter those pesky ants.

Good ole table salt.

When you through a pinch of salt in the devils eye aim it so that it also blocks the path into your house. Ants don't like crossing over salt barriers.

It's time to draw the line, with Chalk.

Chalk seems to be a great weapon against ants. Use it to draw a line of powdered chalk to keep them away from anything. Pouring a small line of chalk around any entry ways into your house will keep them out.

You can buy Ant Chalk but it has insecticide in it so you may want to skip this one if you don't want to use insecticides.

Boric Acid Powder.

A 50/50 mix of boric acid powder and plain old sugar. Make a slurry in a bottle by adding water to the mix and you're good to go and so are the ants.

Boric Acid is toxic enough that you don't want your family or pets eating it so keep it where they can't get into it.

The boric acid has to be ingested by the ants for it to work unlike some other methods where walking through it will work.

Hopefully this information on getting rid of ants and anthills is beneficial to you.

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