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Originally Posted by Lorraine  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. |
Thanks for the info! A woman in a hardware store told us that's how she gets rid of weeds! I will try this tonight.
We have one maple tree in our back yard but it is in really good shape.