Make Your Yard ANT FREE FOREVER In 3 Easy Steps

If you enjoyed this video, please "Like" and share to help increase its reach! Thanks for watching 😊TIMESTAMPS for convenience: 0:00 Getting Rid Of Ants Intro 1:07 Why Ants Love Your Yard 3:25 Step 1: Defending Against Ants 8:09 Step 2: Offensive Strategy 9:48 Step 3: Permanent Ant Prevention 12:52 Preventing Ants Summary 14:25 Adventures With Dal

Grits works amazingly on any piles. The ant eats the grit, swells up and dies. The whole mound is gone! I have been using grits for over 10 years. Use at least half a box and if the mound is huge a whole box. I have only have to do a second application a handful amount of times. Really works and organic.

i use dry ice, a hot brick and a big soup pot. Place the hot brick next to the ant hill. Put the dry ice on top of the brick. Cover the brick and dry ice with the big soup pot making a solid seal with the ground. Put a weight on the soup pot to keep it in place. The CO2 released from the dry ice will penetrate the deepest areas of the nest -- ants, gophers or whatever underground pest you're pursuing -- and put them permanently asleep, leaving no toxic residue.

I use a totally organic solution. In the growing season 1. Put down organic fertilizer. 2. Put down dry molasses. 3. Spray with Actively aerated compost tea, or use a product like Medina Soil activator to populate with beneficial microorganisms. 2. Cover with 1/2" of compost. Water like you normally water your grass. Re-activate the microorganism (in step 3) once a month for 3 months. Your soil will be healthier, your garden will do better provided you are gardening organically. I do this and outside my property line there are dozens and dozens of fire ant mounds. Nothing on my property at all. It is simply too hostile an environment for ants, fleas, ticks, and termites. And the bees and butterflies flourish. After a rain, I sometimes get a couple of fireant mounds. I can either treat them with orange oil and molasses, or just wait a couple of weeks - they'll move on.

I can appreciate the hard work you put in to sharing your advice. For ants I use Terro liquid baits or I sprinkle down cinnamon around the ant hills that I find. They hate the cinnamon smell and vacate within a few hours after applying. The baits do the same of attracting ants and they then take it back to the nest and kills the queen. I use small terra cotta saucers upside down to place the baits then cover with plastic cups with small ant size only notches on the lip edge for access and is water and rain proof. Keep in mind that your pup will absorb the chemicals thru there pads and people shouldn't go barefoot where you've put it down. I'm really not trying to criticize but just trying to keep everyone safe and until it was pointed out to me from my neighbor, I wouldn't have thought of that either. I just feel we need to think about what we're putting on the ground so it doesn't seep down to our ground water/aquifers. Thank you again.

We have fire ants here in Arkansas badly. Since we quit using Chem pesticides, we've found baking soda & white vinegar works well. It's also a fun reaction to watch lol. Just sprinkle a good amount of baking soda on the mound and pour the vinegar over it. For pests in the garden we've found neem oil and diatomaceous earth to be effective weapons as well. Thanks for your videos MG!

My dad used to trade a shovelful from one anthill with another & they would kill each other off...Worked pretty good!

Your channel popped up on my algorithm because my daughter and I was chatting about homesteading and gardens; we’re from NJ and now reside in Charlotte. Your channel has been a Godsend. I’ve been binge watching all week. Thank you for sharing a wealth of knowledge!!!

Excellent video here, esp for those of us with similar soil. btw, for everyone regardless of lawn, garden or home invasion of ants the downfall of any asphalt, paver, concrete pavement (besides weeds) is the nature of ants to tunnel beneath and eventually undermine them. Using a perimeter defense as shown here is vital to ensuring their longevity in many ways.

PLEASE add a note to your description stating if this is a safe strategy for property on water - SO much of eastern NC is on water and we need to know if these products can be an issue for all of the life that calls our water home. Critical also for the many of us that consider that water life to be a food source.

This is great information! We purchased 36 acres in SE AZ and we have exactly the type of soil you talked about in the video. Although we probably will not be able to change the structure of all the soil on our property, we can at least work on the areas close to our living area. We actually were bit several times while putting our fence up at the end of last summer and feel your pain about the flip flops...I definitely wouldn't wear those around until we get them under control!

very instructional, thank you, still going to be difficult here in central florida, but perfect for raised beds and growing melons.

Thank you so much for sharing all this info. I'm a Master Gardener in SW Virginia and we have property in the OBX area as well. You nailed it!

Great video easy to understand and follow, great advice which I'll try to implement to the letter. Thank you, Millennial Gardener!!

Interesting video, I have taken gardening classes with my local extension office here in Middle Georgia, and was always told not to throw sand over the yard to help grass grow, we have heavy clay soil, so when I aerate my lawn and dethatch it I usually use a combination of evergreen topsoil and mix in compost to fill in bare spots and don’t usually have fire ant issue that I can control with Ortho ant killer on the few mounds I find

Awesome video, thank you for taking the time to learn the subject matter and explain it to us. Excellent job!

Wow! This is awesome information. For container gardening, Change the soil structure and/or just add a fabric to the base so they can't throw out soil to build their homes. Thanks a ton 🙂

Part of the life cycle of nightcrawlers is coming up onto the lawn to mate and feed on decaying matter. These poisons affect them as well. And the residues leach deep into the sub surface. So your not only killing ants, but grubs and worms, and all those other insects that help break down decaying plant matter.

Great video! I'm an engineer too, so I appreciate your systematic approach. A word on lawns... since I'm more off a lawn guy than a garden guy. I live on Long Island where it's also sandy. I get ants especially in and around my patio. Over the last few years that I've really been getting into lawn care, I've been trying to loosen up my soil and add organic matter where I can with top dressing and humic acid. Between that and a couple of apps of insect preventer, I've seen my ant situation drop dramatically. I never thought the organic matter would be part of it until you mentioned it, but it's all kind of making sense now! Moral of the story, if you also want a nice lawn (I have a dog and an 8 yr old son), improving the soil conditions for the grass likely helps the any situation too!

Thanks for the info. I'll use your tips. I used the cinnamon powder method in and out the house. It really functions. I also use the combination of water vinegar and liquid floor cleaner lavender also functions. Thanks again.