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Ok, totally non-photography related thread, but I know that there are some keen gardeners on here who can help me out ...

I know nothing about gardening :shrug: (other than it's a necessary evil) and at the minute my garden consists of a mound of mud with bits of grass & weeds growing out of it :eek: However, I'm willing to give it a go and have even been & bought some plants to put in there when I eventually get around to it!

Anyway, have just spent almost 2 hours weeding around the driveway, and as I pulled the weeds up, I have never seen so many ants.. what can I use to kill them?

Also, how do I get rid of moss from the pathway? Is there something I can put on it, or is it a case of getting down on my hands & knees and scraping it up?

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You need to find the ants nest, then boiling water poured down it should do the trick.

Not nice but there you go.
 
Nice avatar! Pocket cups! And that's why I don't like cricket.....
 
I would have said the boiling water but if you get ants in your plant pots then you would kill the plants so a powder from a garden centre will do the trick. I have just got back from the garden centre and bought a few lovely plants expecially to photograph....Barry bought me a water feature, a little girl (not a real one I might add)being squirted by a fountain :)
 
If you try to destroy them, they'll move somewhere else.
This somewhere else could be inside your home, so I would suggest
leaving them alone.

As dod says, they do a good job of cleaning up other pests.
 
Theres only one thing I have more of than weeds in my garden ... all those god damned ants!
My entire garden is full of the little blighters happily tunnelling away.
I can stand them at the moment but, give it another few weeks & then the flying variety take over.
Its about then I give in to the boiling water along with mucho foot stamping!
 
I used to have ants at my old house, all along my driveway too that met up with the house. I just poured bleach down on the ant hills and all along the house. Seemed to work for me, pesky buggers were gone, not sure about in a garden though. :thinking:

Did I mention I am NOT a gardner. :LOL: :D

Jewel
 
Ok, the ants get to stay where they are :)
So how do I get the moss up from the lumpy tarmac? Please don't tell me that is good for the garden too....
 
minimeeze said:
Ok, the ants get to stay where they are :)
So how do I get the moss up from the lumpy tarmac? Please don't tell me that is good for the garden too....
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Round up is the answer (y) Kills most things.

Be careful with it though, spray or apply on a still day, make sure there's no rain forecast and wait 7-10 days
 
Depends how thick the moss is.......

I used a fish slice to remove it from my back path. But that's considerably smaller than a driveway. Flamethrower? Blow torch? All better than chemical muck!
 
Soda crystals diluted as per packaging instructions in hot water and good stiff broom!
 
GfK SCHOOL OF GARDENING

Lesson 1

a) Locate flower beds
b) Mix concrete
c) Pour
d) Auction lawn mower and various gardening tools on eBay.

(y)
 
hi mini
you could try Jeyes fluid, diluted and poured/sprayed on, or a brand called Armillatox, smells like disinfectant for a couple of days, but hey it works.
 
GfK said:
GfK SCHOOL OF GARDENING

Lesson 1

a) Locate flower beds
b) Mix concrete
c) Pour
d) Auction lawn mower and various gardening tools on eBay.

(y)
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love this idea, would make my job easy, i could hire cement mixers for a living.
 
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