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Originally Posted by linz06  Last year we started getting lots of ants in our back yard. We had some ant-killer drops and some little tins of ant poison that we left just outside the fence, out of Layla's reach, but still in the vicinity of the ant hills.I guess it didn't work... now it's spring and the whole middle of the lawn is patchy and there are new hills everywhere! There are huge clearings of grass that are full of ant hills 
We are planning to reseed the lawn right away but obviously need to get rid of this ant problem first. We need a natural solution, something that won't harm the dogs because now we have Kash and Lucy who go outside multiple times a day, and we also need something that is not going to kill the grass we do have in the area.
Any suggestions??? I heard Borax would work on the ants, but it may kill the grass and nothing may grow there for a long time... |
Put the dog in the house, boil the kettle, pour the boiling water on the ant hill. Do it on each hill that oughta do it and they won't come back. I did that years ago at another house I lived in, never saw them again.
we had fruit trees some of which were not in good shape. I suspect that attracted the ants as they will attract to diseased rotten wood. Remove any trees that fit that catagory and if you have fruit trees, pick it or pick it off the ground if they have fallen.