10 Tips For Organic Ant Control
We have a bit of an ant problem in the garden, well in the backyard in general. I hate just grabbing the nearest pesticide and spraying the whole backyard… including the garden. We are trying to be organic here!
So in the past week or so we have been searching the “intra-webs” for the organic answer to ant control and have found some quite interesting ways to get rid of ants. All of these are organic, so if you are looking for the same thing - read on below. The tips below should keep ants from having a party on your plants.
10 Ways To Kill Ants… Organically
1. Baking soda is poisonous to ants, spinkle it around your plants to ensure ants will stay away.
2. Flour & Baby Powder will keep ants from reaching your plants, ants will not cross the powder - so circle your plants with it.
3. You can use coffee grounds, chili powder, cinnamon, peppermint or black pepper. All deter ants and if you pour coffee grounds directly on an anthill, they will eat the coffee grounds and implode.
4. Grits, instant rice & cream of wheat can be sprinkled around plants. The ant will eat a piece of whichever you sprinkle, drink water and the grain expands and kills the ant. 
5. Fill a spray bottle with 1 part vinegar and 1 part water and spray on plants. The acid in vinegar will kills ants.
6. Mix together one-third cup of molasses, six tablespoons of sugar, and six tablespoons of active dry yeast into a smooth paste. Use the mixture to coat strips of cardboard. Keep out of reach of pets and small children. You can leave mixture on a saucer outside anthill and they’ll eat it and die!
7. Fold contact paper in half, with the sticky side out and make a circle around base of plant. The ants get stuck on the paper - problem solved.
8. Cut off the bottom of a paper cup and cut a slit up the side of the cup and coat outside with vaseline and place around base of plant. You can also use packing tape.
9. Mix one cup of borax, two-thirds a cup sugar and one cup water. Dip cotton balls in the solution and place in areas near your anthill Ants will leave the plants alone and ingest the sweet mixture. The borax kills the ants.
10. Diatomaceous Earth is a commonly sold organic pesticide that will destroy the insects outer skeletons, causing the pests to die from dehydration.
Read our update to this post - where we tried some of the methods: Organic Ant Control Update
Good tips man. I can use these to kill off some ants I got.
Great post!!
That is quite a collection of organic solutions. I might try some of them. We have what I believe to be a huge colony of tiny ants under and all around the driveway. Working in the flowers beside the driveway is tricky. We get bitten. Thanks for posting those tricks.
You are more than welcome Barbee - glad you stopped by. Hope it helps!
Corey - Thanks, get to killin’
LetsPlant - Hope it helps, thanks for stopping by.
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Great tips. I’ll probably try them all(something is bound to work)! We really don’t want to use a bunch of chemicals. We have about 2 acres(it seems like) of piss ants. That’s what I call them ’cause they constantly PISS ME OFF!
Thanks
I think I can now safely report that my ants are GONE! At least the main masses of them. I used the baking soda and lined the stone paths where they were mounding up dirt and lines the individual beds of the garden with it. Seems to have done the trick!!
Thank you!