Tired of ants taking over your garden? 🐜 In this video, I’ll show you the most effective (and surprisingly simple) ways to get rid of ants fast—without harming your plants! Whether they’re climbing your vegetable beds, protecting aphids, or building colonies in your soil, these tricks will send them packing. From natural remedies to clever garden hacks, you’ll learn exactly how to protect your plants and keep your garden thriving.
🌱 What you’ll discover in this video:
Why ants invade gardens in the first place
Natural and safe methods to eliminate them
How to stop ants from farming aphids on your plants
Simple household solutions that actually work
Long-term prevention tips so they don’t come back
If you’ve been struggling with ants in your garden beds, on your fruit trees, or even in your greenhouse, this video is for you.
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TIMESTAMPS
00:30 – Remove attractants
00:53 – Physical Barriers for Ants
01:42 – Natural Ant Repellants
02:22 – Attract Ladybugs and Praying Mantises
02:43 – DIY Ant Trap/Bait using Borax and Sugar
03:49 – Monitor your garden for ant activity
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22 Comments
Check out First Saturday Lyme. It's a new discovery for me and it's been a game changer for me this year. From ants, to sluggs to flies. Best thing is it dries back out unlike DE. You reapply once a month, hence the name. Keeps the flies out of my chicken yard, lowest amount of sluggs ever in my garden/yard, and just last week I had an ant line from the door to my cat food dish so I put down FSL and they haven't come back. Oh ya, not one tomato horn worm this year! I'm in Seattle so all the pests I mentioned are all over.
Thanks, Brian! I especially love the K-cup idea! Love and hugs to you, Emilie and Noah. ❤️🫂🌹
I think there is a specific type of cinnamon you have to use, the kind i used the ants acted like it wasnt there.
Over a decade ago I worked hard to control aphids in my landlady's roses, and the huge benefit was no more ants in the house or the garden! Then a couple weeks ago they showed up in my kitchen in the cat food. Windex kills them on contact, but I also followed up outside with DE (diatomaceous earth). Then aphids invaded my yard-long beans for the first time ever, and I only found out because of the ant parade. Apparently 2025 is the year of the ant because after controlling them on the beans, they are now filling my squash flowers. I have a crazy pattern of DE trails all over the garden, and I'm still searching for the hill. Going to try the borax or go buy some Terro ready made. I think I have a container of cinnamon in the pantry, so I'll add it to the mix, but I want to remove, not deter. Thanks, Brian!
Oh yeah! I need to use the kcup pods for the ants! I've got them in my yard too! I've hated using chemicals to get rid of them, and they just seem to move and start anew!!
Borax and sugar have worked great for me.
How about in the house
DIDN’T your momma ever tell you that your eyes are going to stay that way ! 🤭 🌼🌺💚🙃
Great advice. My new garden area has a lot of ants, so i will apply some of these methods, particularly the traps and leaving some of my carrots to flower, and dill.
Does this work on fire ants? We have a ton of those stupid things and they love me 😖😊❤
Baking soda gets rid of ants. It messes with their acidic nature. They bring it down the hole to the whole colony, and it kills all of them.
Borax with sugar worked like a charm for me.
I had ants in my kitchen. At first I sprinkled ground cinnamon all over the counters. Worked like a charm. After I cleaned that up, I put a bunch of stick cinnamon in a little dish and left it on the counter. I replaced the cinnamon sticks every six months or so. Haven’t seen an ant since. I am also meticulous about keeping my countertops clean.
I used the Borax method & it works!
Brian – for some reason, I have lost my subscription to your homestead channel and can’t find it now! Please help. Never mind- I found the new name.
I had ants in my compost bin, they even started making a mound in the middle. I applied DE over a few days and they were gone very quickly.
I use the sugar water laced with (I use) boric acid to take care of wasps too. And if you have a fire ant problem, add 1/8 tsp boric acid to a can of potted meat. Fire ants eat protein. Plop it near the mound. It takes a couple weeks, because you want a low concentration so they can't taste it, and they'll feed it to the nest before it takes effect. Thank you for these natural methods, Brian. Inexpensive, and effective.
Personally and so far in my garden, bah, ain’t got no quarrels with them ants. 🤷🏻
This has to be the worst ant year ever. DE is good and traps. Wish I could find a predator bug that could take them out!
Ants & me wage war non-stop in Cape Town's summer months. I swear our neighbourhood is built on a giant ant hill! I've tried everything. Unfortunately, there is only 1 thing I have found effective, and that is a locally made ant poison that is not eco-friendly. I don't spray it, but I drench the ground around the nests (after sunset to limit exposure to flying beneficials). Borax & sugar method does nothing. Bait traps are so-so but for the quantity of ants, it really doesn't make a dent. I do not have an aphid problem. Just the nice dry clay & rock soil that they love to build colonies in!!!! 😭😭
What about ants 🐜 in figs! Always a problem!
Borax and sugar water. Cheap, easy and effective.