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| Parenting Club Forums > All About Being Green > Natural products to get rid of ants |
| Posted by: CantWait Apr 22 2010, 04:22 AM |
| Any, I have them everywhere coming from outside including on my kitchen counters. |
| Posted by: bluebear Apr 22 2010, 10:50 AM |
| I need this too. I started getting them again yesterday. |
| Posted by: A&A'smommy Apr 22 2010, 10:57 AM |
| diatomaceous earth not 100% on where you can buy this because I have had a HARD time finding it!! |
| Posted by: PrairieMom Apr 22 2010, 11:19 AM | ||
I think you can buy it at places that sell pools. Like real pools. isn't that what they put in pool filters? I think Borax works too, I keep meaning to look it up for you, but i got distracted watching glee.   |
| Posted by: moped Apr 22 2010, 11:27 AM | ||
I buy it at the local greenhouse! |
| Posted by: coasterqueen Apr 22 2010, 12:04 PM | ||||
Some local health food stores have it too AND I actually saw it at Lowes the other day. Not sure if the Lowe's kind is as good, though. |
| Posted by: CantWait Apr 22 2010, 12:05 PM |
LOL guys, anything more natural, like something I can find in a Russian grocery store  |
| Posted by: PrairieMom Apr 22 2010, 12:08 PM |
| maybe try some of these? http://www.eartheasy.com/live_natpest_control.htm |
| Posted by: coasterqueen Apr 22 2010, 01:53 PM | ||
 Forgot about you being in Russia. |
| Posted by: PrairieMom Apr 22 2010, 02:13 PM |
| I THOUGHT you could use borax. LOL. http://www.ehow.com/how_4471409_fight-ants-borax.html Its a laundry booster, I get it at our grocery store.  |
| Posted by: CantWait Apr 23 2010, 10:42 AM | ||
 Nope, none of that here....ugh!!!! I'm toast. Off to the store tomorrow. |
| Posted by: ~Roo'sMama~ Apr 24 2010, 07:19 AM | ||
planting marigolds around your yard as a way to keep mosquitoes away is an interesting idea... I wonder if it would actually work? I might have to convince my mother to let me plant marigolds everywhere this year. I actually just heard that planting marigolds around your garden can keep the bugs and bunnies out of there too. |
| Posted by: PrairieMom Apr 24 2010, 07:23 AM | ||||
Last year in our community garden the bunnies ate the marigolds. |
| Posted by: CantWait Apr 24 2010, 10:40 AM | ||||
I hear skunks really like these as well   |
| Posted by: ~Roo'sMama~ Apr 24 2010, 12:39 PM | ||||||
Lol! Maybe it doesn't work on your hardy South Dakota Bunnies. But then it probably wouldn't work on our Minnesota Bunnies either... the lady I heard about it from lives somewhere in the east I think. |
| Posted by: ~Roo'sMama~ Apr 24 2010, 12:40 PM | ||||||
Wait... you mean the skunks LIKE marigolds, as in if I plant them, skunks will come to my yard? I'm definitely re-thinking the marigold idea. |
| Posted by: msoulz Apr 26 2010, 06:03 AM |
Try vinegar. I recall that is supposed to repel them and they probably have that in Russia!  |
| Posted by: coasterqueen Apr 26 2010, 06:26 AM |
| BTW, we use marigolds around tomato plants around here - they keep tomato worms away. |
| Posted by: luvbug00 Apr 26 2010, 09:23 AM |
I've heard vinegar as well.  |
| Posted by: Hillbilly Housewife May 3 2010, 06:52 AM |
| lol, chalk and crushed egg shells |
| Posted by: CantWait May 10 2010, 08:32 AM | ||
Yes, and it's a lot stronger |
| Posted by: Misqrd Mar 15 2011, 03:50 PM |
| Tea Tree Oil works great! Good luck! Michelle |