What is a safe non-toxic way to get rid of ants in the garden?
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cinnamon powder
cinnamon will deter ants, sprinkle it in crevices where ants tend to be.
Agree -- cinnamon powder will make the ants go somewhere else, especially if you have found them in any of your pots. Cinnamon powder has antibacterial properties and orchid growers use this all the time to sprinkle on any pruning cuts.
Fill a spray bottle with water and add approximately 10 – 15 drops of peppermint essential oil and spray in area of ants, they will not cross the line you have sprayed. Although I have never tried it, I hear cucumber works too.
Cinniman should keep them away!
packaged cornbread mix that says it is sweetened and put it where they are. They will take it to the mound, everyone will eat it and die, they can't digest the cornmeal, but will take it because it is sweetened. Little goes a long way.