Ants are Harming YOUR Garden… Here is Why!
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- If you think ants are good for the garden you may want to consider the fact that they can also be the source of issues. Ants can be benefical in moderation but in large quantities are going to have a negative effect on garden plants.
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Ashley has had a passion for plants since she was a small child. In the long summers as a child, she would garden alongside her grandmother and it was then that she realized her love for greenery. With years of great studying, Ashley had begun her post-secondary education at the University of Saskatchewan.
At first, her second love, animals, was the career path she chose but while doing her undergrad she realized that her education would take her elsewhere. And with that, four years later she graduated from the University of Saskatchewan with a bachelor’s degree in science and a major in Soil Science.
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Do you consider your ants beneficial or overwhelming to the point of causing issues? There is no wrong answer, everyone’s experience is different.
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Definitely beneficial 1000%.
Aphids are a non-issue. The amount of harm they can cause, even if left to completely proliferate unfettered, is so minimal that you'd have to be doing everything else wrong from the start. Probably the most destructive to plant health is citronella ants, which farm root-aphids. (Which you wouldnt even ever see unless you lift up rocks and pavers to find them) But EVEN THOSE arent enough to even weaken a plant to any significant degree.
Plus, they are natures PERFECT waste disposal system. If all of the ants in a space just fanished and died off, you would have dead bugs, birds, and small mammals completely littering the ground. Even tiny sugar ants are able to make those carcasses disappear in a day.
Also, unless you live in south america, they are not the things chewing up your leaves, i promise you that. There are many things that will do that (sawflies, leaf cutter bees-*one of the worlds best pollinators btw-, army worms, et cetera) but ants are not one of them.
Thier downsides are minimal, and the ones that seem major are usually misinformation. So yeah. They are the gardens little sanitation crew keeping the cycle of life from burying us in dead carcasses. Leave them to do thier work.
Ants farm aphids not to eat them but because aphids produce a sweet substance called honeydew ants eat. Aphids are the cows of ants
This is all ants do in my garden. They eat my tomatoes as well
I had wooden raised beds that were rotting, and I removed them earlier this year. One was completely infested with ants. Every time I tried to do anything in that garden bed, including pulling weeds, they swarmed out and got under my clothing and bit me. I had to abandon that bed last summer. Turns out they were actually nesting in the wood of the garden bed.
There's been a well established nest right in the middle of my front lawn for probably 10 years now. I've done boiling water. I've rammed a water pipe down in there, to the point where it was 6 ft into the ground and just let the water run for an hour at various depths. I dumped an entire bag of icing sugar mixed with an entire box of borax on it....of course, that killed the grass, but it did appear to kill the colony THAT year. The next year they were back. Those cans of foaming and crap from Canadian Tire were useless. Now, I've made peace with the idea that they've won and I'm not trying to get rid of them anymore. I do however stomp on the hill every single time I walk by just to harass the hell out of them. I've been doing that for 2 or 3 years now. It does nothing to get rid of them, but it makes me feel better. LOL.
You're doing the borax wrong. 98% sugar+ 1% borax. Put it in a jar, lay the jar on its side and drill holes on the lid. This keeps the rain out. Maybe add an anchoring strategy if raccoons are a problem.
I swear, people think vinegar is some kind of cure-all for every garden problem
And in your house. People be cray.
I had no choice but to plant one of my tomatoes and basil on ant nest. I didn’t know there was an ant nest until I dug it up. It grew the best basil I’ve ever had… but I wouldn’t want them near my root vegetables.
My mum used to pour a kettle of boiling water on the nest. It does work. Obviously not a good thing next to a plant! Also not good for the living organisms in the soil but that is a local effect which will heal itself.
I have heard of this trick! Definitely would work
1 part borax 10 parts sugar works good as bait. Outside ants are picky and it can't have too much borax or the ants won't eat it. Inside ants will fall for a 1/6 ratio. Outside may need up to 1/20 and it takes a few days. If that doesn't work borax in peanut butter will. 1/30 by volume
This mix worked for me when living in a basement surrounded by ants out of doors, that were trying to make it indoors! A couple of milk caps with this in it, tucked by ingress points, and they left me alone!
We enjoyed the wide range of Ants-swers😂 on both sides of the “bug “ coin. I had to shake it up here too ;)
Ahahahahahah
Blame anything you didn't plant in your own garden on furry gardeners (a.k.a. squirrels).
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Or feathery gardeners, I ended up with Canola in my garden this year, nearest canola fields are at least a couple miles away. 😂
I've notice ants seem to have a (beneficial?) relationship with my tomatillos however they will eat the stigma or anther of my squash flowers so I can have zero pollination near ants!
My hubby uses 3 to 1 sugar to borax mixed with a little bit of water so the mixture becomes like a thick slurry
Then he puts the mixture in a bottle with tinny holes in it so the ants can crawl in it and eat the mixture of sugar/borax/water slurry
@@pamadams899% sugar+ 1% borax.
Ants actually farm aphids. They milk them similar to how we milk cows to get their sweet secretions.
Came here to say same thing! They herd and farm them for the sweet honeydew excrement, not aphid-eaters.
I've always liked ants, like a lot of people like butterflies, so for me they're a feature. It probably helps we don't have any problematic species where I live. They do farm aphids, but aphids never stick around very long with the large number of predators I have in my garden, so I mostly view aphids as "food for wildlife". Slugs however... are a problem here :).
I definitely have an ant farm 😅… they are very fun to watch
When i had a garden i found that the amts seemed to be located the same places every year, and it had nothing to do with plants. I
It was Foundation, pavement and grass. I read they were attracted to specific “leylines” or undergrund water, which specifically would be the currents that were harmful to humans.
To get rid of the ants you can use coke zero. Yes, aspartame seems to be poisonous to them❤
They move and “farm” mealy bugs too. I have a front yard with a loam that compacts very easily - a giant Campanotus colony did a great job of breaking the soil up but there were so many that they stripped the surrounding vegetation.
Funny that you come up with this topic. I was dealing with it as well because they've been destroying my globe artichokes and I'm using cinnamon now. Cinnamon helped us already on our balcony where we have some ants and to avoid that they come into the house we put a line of cinnamon powder at the entrance. It worked.
Thirty five years of killing bugs, at times I would say, a lot of Aunts, no Uncles, some got it most did not.
Stay WELL!!!
nothing to be proud about...
This is a great video! Thanks so much!
A couple of years ago one section of my garden had a lot of tiny little ants that would get into the zucchini blossoms and they were also all over the tomatillo plants that were near the zucchini. Even when I hand pollinated the squash the fruit dropped off. There were 3 tomatillo plants and the one closest to the ants wouldn't set fruit. The next closest had about 1/2 fruit set. I used borax and sugar which worked really well to knock down the number of ants. As soon as the ants were reduced the tomatillos and zucchini started to set fruit. I had never heard of ants preventing pollination but that sure is what this appeared to be happening. Do you think some ants eat the pollen? Next time they cause problems I will try nematodes. Bookmarked!
Ants are a nightmare for us. Every spring they attack my brassicas and kill at least a handful of the seedlings. They knaw at the stems and roots until they can't take up water and fall over and die, I've no idea why they do this whether it's food or a territorial dispute. Once the plants get established they lose interest. I've tried all sorts to protect the plants. We have very sandy soil so they're everywhere.
I dont have chickens. Just Hooooo Hooooo! Mourning doves that eat the ants. Sure I've got a few mounds of ants. If they don't over populate or bite me, I tend to leave them. The little red ants bite hard, so no sandals when gardening for me.
Aweee
I use boric acid 99% mixed with cola. This works for ants and yellow jackets,but one must provide a way for the insects to drink the cola and escape back to the nest. (String,stick,wire etc.) anecdotally,I’ve observed this to work after a number of days. I’m not sure if I’d use it actually “in” my garden bed as I’m not sure if the boric acid damages plants or changes soil ph.
Leafcutter ants are the bane of my existence. Most ants are easy to take care of with an ant bait, but not leafcutters.
Could diluted orange oil drench be an option for you? It’s what I use. Works on contact. I’m unfamiliar with leaf cutter ants but I would think it would work similarly on them as it does fire ants.
@@mikki_s1100 If you have access to the leafcutter ant nest then yes you could apply orange oil or some type of pesticide like permethrin to kill the colony. Only problem is that the nest is located on my neighbors property... and they aren't exactly the most approachable people lol
so far in my garden , they have been a nuisance , farming aphids and whitefly on my roses and citrus
Five years of happy ants but now i have a colony of red ones that bite me when i work on my compost. I beat some back with Dawn.
Do ants eat or otherwise destroy seeds? Especially small ones?
I’ve noticed that areas of my community plot where the ants are worse often have really poor showings from direct sowing.
I have a couple beds with ant nests in them. It’s obvious because even the slightest disturbance of soil sends small ants running everywhere. Say I pull up a carrot, that will do it. Those are a nuisance because they crawl on me.
Other beds I have seen ants farming aphids. Argh. None of those right now fortunately.
Other beds have random larger ants running all over. Not a lot of them in any one spot but a few of them all over the place. This is new this year. Keeping an eye on it.
Aphids are an indicator of wrong conditions for your plants. Can be soil issues or climate issues or anything else that will disturb an optimal growth and optimal sugar production by the plant that gets attacked by aphids.
Wile using DE in my yard, I noticed the colony tends to move out and find a new home and just a few die. only works in spring and dry summer times, in fall the dew renders it useless every night and same whenever it gets wet. but it does work great for me in the early season keeping populations in check.
Ha 😅 of course they are that smart
I have two or three different types of ants and in large quantities! They don’t seem to harm but they are a nuisance in the pathway sand. My chickens don’t really like to eat them but they love the eggs!!
Yes your borax sugar truck is the best. A twist to that is to mix a bit of water to make a paste mixing the two ingredients.
Great information, I have some on my Dragon Fruits, no damage.
Good to know!
It’s the giant furry ants, (also known as moles) that make me insane. They burrow all spring and invisibly undermine the root systems of my trees plants and shrubs. I spend late spring backfilling underneath my plants, but if I miss one (like I did with a hazelnut sapling I planted) it suddenly turns up dried up and dead after a month of summer heat.
Wish borax or DE worked on them…
Haha I agree the worst
This is my biggest issue this year. I did a ton of work on soil improvement and now the only place the never ending supply of moles want to be is in my beds. I’ve had numerous plants decline and die over a very short period of time. They’ve pushed a couple newly planted plants out of the ground. They tunnel 360 degrees around every single plant and under many too. I’ve discovered literal caverns under some areas. It is so incredibly frustrating. I hate them even more than deer
Thanks for the useful tips Ashley!
Glad it was helpful!
Hey all. This is off topic but I think this needs attention. Maybe some people here have had this issue in Northern Nevada.
We got a new house in Northern Nevada. They use the most awful 95% sand for the subgrade. They didn't even put an aggregate down. The soil has just enough silt and clay in it so that it compacts like concrete. Not to mention that our land used to be a race track. So, there's fine gravel and old asphalt in the dirt also. I believe we have the worst soil in the world here. There is no option but to till the dirt and amend it with something alive.
So, what I did was dig up the dirt in sections. I piled up the dirt. In the piles, I then mixed in deer manure and compost from a local supplier... Now, you can all talk crap, but I used biochar in small amounts per wheelbarrow full... maybe a couple ounces and a whole bag of manure/compost. I don't remember the brand of biochar but it had a lion on the front and was waaaayyy over-priced. I plan on adding a healthy amount of mulch to top it all off.
The soil changed completely. It accepted water, rather than run off. The sand became a viable soil. Although still sandy, it was spongy and resisted compaction. It was noticeably darker due to the additives.
In my opinion, the combination of biochar and manure made the soil hold moisture and nutrients. The biochar seemed to keep the sand from leeching out nutrients and moisture. I also discovered mycelia after a couple weeks of watering with tap water which was obviously from the manure. But, this soil was soooo dead... Like old western tumble weed "dead", literally. I'm contemplating hot composting all the Russian Thistle that grows in our back yard. A literal wall of tumble weeds 20ft thick was blown by our 30+ mph winds to our back fence.
This soil killed Day Lilies for fs sake. Well, almost, anyway.
Anyone from Northern NV? Care to share? Any education on our crap dirt up here?
Have you thought about trying a cover crop? It sounds like you’ve done great things for your land, so bravo to you. Adding more greens to the soil seems to be the next best thing based on what you’ve written.
Seems like you have done everything you can for it. I would say just keep applying mulch and plant perennials.
@@shrimuyopa8117 Yeah that's basically all i'm doing... just adding more and more organic material as I go.
@@NM-kl9ws I'm actually experimenting with a white clover over the soil. I'll let you all know if it works or not. The sand does still get dry on top and gets somewhat compacted but the soil underneath is retaining moisture for now.
It is true what you say.
In my opinion Fire ants are the worst. I still try to remove them from my garden because:
1. They destroy ALL the crops I have.
2. Increases the amount of aphids and Mealybugs
3. Cant get close to the plants because their stings are horrible.
4. Eliminates other beneficial insects.
5. They appear EVERYWHERE.
There are a few other kinds of ants on my garden that actually help the plants and fruits, and some of them, don't even sting. But the Fire ants? No no, they have to disappear. And no matter what I try, they are still messing around....
And worst is that they spread like crazy. I go to my laundry to clean cloths? They are there, on the kitchen? Yup, they just pop up anywhere and bite like crazy.
Even if you get insecticide around the house, they pop up from the electric sockets. HOW?!?
Ants are good food for my cephalotus follicularis collection! I harvest ants and manually feed my plants during the winter months.
They are unwanted otherwise
I feel so bad for having to reduce my patreon from $25 to $8 because I swear every video you put out is what I’m struggling with. Everytime I water my fabric grow bags there are tons of ants that come out, usually carrying eggs so I know they’re setting up a colony.
They’re mainly on my luffa’s and zuchinni, but I’ve always wondered if they’re harmful or not.
Omg don’t even worry about that! I’m doing this for fun and because of you guys not money
I read some time ago, about coffee, that spiders actually loose their ability to make functional webs when they tried giving them coffee.
It's not especialy useful to know - but now we do anyway.
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I saw that study as well, caffeine made the webs wonky, And The effects of cannabis and LSD were even more bizarre!
@@jayla007 Thank you! Of course it was caffeine, not coffee. 😁💚👍
My ants are deliberately destroying my crops. They peel back my corn leaves and stuff them full of aphids
Oh wow.
It's called aphid honey, if they were big enough ants would try and put bees to work too.
They literally ranch them for their by products, even going as far to husbandry and cultivate their eggs and whatnot.
They killed some of my artichokes.
Borax and icing sugar in a few jar lids spread around the yard/garden...
I totally believe in this method. It works wonderfully
@@GardeningInCanadaI have never used borax and know little to nothing about it. Will it harm the plants and more importantly, is it harmful to dogs/birds/chipmunks, etc.? I was watering my pots the other evening and I had noticed a huge stream of ants across the patio. About 1/2 hour later I realized I was covered in these damn little ants. I had to jump in the shower and throw my clothes right in the washer to get rid of them. I don't know how they climbed all over me in the minute I was in that area, but I want to be prepared for the next invasion haha 😅.
@@livelaughlove63517 It's safe for dogs in the right concentration. I still make dog proof bait stations.
@@livelaughlove63517 My understanding is that borax binds water in a massive way. On a tiny scale, like ants, its fatal. On a macro scale like pets and forest friends they'll get very thirsty and move on
I live on the fourth floor. Believe it or not, I have had ant issues when there are lots of aphids. Now I also grow flowers with my veggies so I get lots of hover flies. Now no aphids and so no ants. Thanks Ashley!
That’s insane! Literally spider quality 😂
It was most likely a soil issue to begin with. For example too much water, not enough water, too much or not enough nutrients, wrong PH,...etc. etc. By adding flowers it most likely solved the soil issue. Biodiversity is a powerful remedy for many issues.
Ants will ranch aphids.
Saw it on one of those nature shows, but also saw it IRL on my tomatoes. I'm not sure if they simply rustle em up or if they'll put a pheromone out to attract them.
But once they were there I saw the ants wouldn't let them leave. They'd tend the eggs for the aphids, harvest the ichor they'd leave behind and keep them working. It was kinda brutal.
That made me bust out the blue Dawn two days in a row they were gone.
People in my area have had success this summer with ground up fruit loops cereal. 😮
K that is wild
Ha! I've always suspected Fruit Loops are poisonous!
Ants benefit a garden by aerating the soil, enriching it with nutrients, controlling pests, dispersing seeds, and occasionally aiding in pollination, contributing to overall biodiversity and ecosystem health.
I wonder if the ants are talking about getting rid of us buggers.
Makes me think of "Ender's Game". If you haven't read this classic, check it out!
im fine with it, i just add bugs by attracting them with more plants that fight against these problems, so i have more things in my garden plant and insect wise.
hhahahhaha shituation !!! love it ! this channel is awesome !
Glad you enjoy it!
Every year I have a problem with ants on my okra plants and fig bush, they tear up both pretty bad and I've not found a pesticide that totally wipes them out. They eat the leaves and fruit on the okra and devour the figs at an alarming rate. I've tried boric acid and traps, Sevin and pyrethrin and nothing has done much to to eliminate them.
Interesting! Wonder why okra
@@GardeningInCanada Not sure, but they've been a problem for years, it seems to attract them for some reason. By last fall when the plants are really tall, they're pretty much covered in small black ants. They attack the base of the fruit and the leaves.
The okra is a good 80ft form the figs, so its likely a different batch of ants but they look the same. A dusting with Sevin will keep them off the plants for a few days but it don't last, and I'm not a big fan of using it unless I have to. I tried soap in water too but that don't bother them at all. If I don't plant okra, they don't show up in the garden at all.
6:40 I take your soils science geekiness and raise you with my structural engineer geekiness. Cement is a powdery substance that when mixed with water a chemical reaction occurs, turning the mixture into concrete: the stuff used to make sidewalks, driveways, roads, the foundations of most homes. If you have ants eating your concrete, your concrete is probably poor quality. Concrete will naturally crack, repeated freeze/thaw cycles will make it work. The ants are probably taking advantage of the cracks to move through the tunnels, bringing up sand particles from within the concrete. Eating concrete is weird, I’ve never heard of ants eating concrete before, but if you say they did, I believe you.
Yes. They love to nest around concrete because of the rain protection.
Fascinating! I loves my engineer friends!
@@YSLRD That makes sense. Even ants like their creature comforts.
Okay. You got me with gulag joke. You got a new sub.
I use a ant bait house on my corn in florida.
find the nest use boiling water... have heard that works well but never had any issues with ants affecting my plants here
Ashley, have you ever tried orange oil to get rid of ants? It's just orange essential oil, and as such it's not cheap, but it works a treat to clear out the ants in one go without harming other insects the way DE can. I'll have to try the borax-sugar method. Sounds appropriately brutal. ~ Lisa
can you do a video about which weeds/plants are beneficial to compost or not? since certain plants or weeds produce their own natural herbicides/pesticides im wondering if those would biodegrade over time and become inert. ive read about coffee grounds being a bad compost ingredient because caffeine is an insecticide and repels worms.
Ooooo good idea
I put the used spent coffee grounds in the compost and it doesn't seem to be a problem. I read that most of the caffeine leeches out when you make coffee. It is very water soluble.
Thank you for making this video in response to my previous comment, appreciate it. I have carpenter ants I've realized and they are relentless and bite hard. They are all over my property and they actively farm aphids on some plants. I had them professionally sprayed every year before gardening more and having grazing animals. Would borax bait stations be my best bet?
Always 🙏 my content is completely based around your questions.
Thanks for this. Interesting.
Glad you enjoyed it!
I love volunteer plants.
If the ants are eating through your cement it is indicating to you that there is water retention around your foundation. They will eat through your styrofoam and…..i use corn meal and it works good.
It’s the side walk on the driveway where it connects to the sidewalk
I have some parts of my garden I rarely work in because I wnd yo covered in ants.
I hate that feeling!
Don't forget the aphids also create honeydew (the sappy stuff, not the melon) which attract the ants which in turn kill the plant.
Interesting! I have an ant infestation beside my compost bin where I dumped out some soil from old pots a few years ago. It’s turned into a solid mound full of weeds and roots and yep, ants! I was trying to remove the pile and even out the ground but they immediately climb up all over me.
Unrelated, how do you feel about adding sand into soil to lighten it up? I’ve never had much luck with root vegetables until I added a layer of sand to my soil bed, and now I’ve grown some great root vegetables and I want to just mix sand into everything! Is there a reason I shouldn’t?
Are nematodes still your favorite pest protection option?
I have an old bag of diazanol from the 90s before it was banned. Still does the trick on the ants and it's almost 30 years old. Just a half teaspoon on a mound and the next day it's dust.
Tons of ants where I’m at, it’s just sandier soil though, the whole town is on sand point for water even, but I’ve never actually had an issue with the ants harming any of my plants though. My neighbours complain about the ants all the time, but most of them are trying for the perfect lawns and I couldn’t care less about my grass, as long as my garden and trees are good. 😂
What about Vaseline? I read that you could smear a little at the base of the stalk of the plant to keep them from climbing up it.
That may work! Try it and report back for the GIC Crew
I tried this and it worked great for a short period of time but then the outside dried and wasn’t sticky anymore.
My hubby gets rid of our ants if they get too big of a Coloney and farm too many aphids
Great information about ants 🇳🇿❤️
Glad you enjoyed it
Always used boiling water on nests. Who’s planting weed in your garden? Hubby?
Damn things ate roots of several plants killing them in one to two days when I wasnt looking. This year they are crazy, I probably lost up to 8 medicinal plants to them. And DE helps but they just move to another plant or get addapted to it somehow.
Can you tell us about Isopods place in the garden?
Added peanut butter, sugar and a little water with the borax to make a thick paste. Put in little plastic tubs with a few holes drilled in sides of tubs. Worked well on pavement ants. Reduced the population of the larger ants.
Should probably have applied again but at this point they don't seem to be a problem.
K I am trying this
With lids to keep out water
Can you please do something like this for frogs ? I’m getting a lot of mixed it’s good / it bad to have in your garden
We have sweet little toads in the garden. I'm sure they eat both good and bad insects but I just love them.
@@SerialSpinner-ss same! They are super cute but they are eating my dragon flies and my mother is terrified of them. They have ate some crickets that were devastating my pepper plants, so I’m really happy about that 😊
Good video. My oleander aphids are bad this summer. There are twelve potted oleanders that I bring into the garage in winter, when cold. I am in an exurb of Paris France. I've been using my thumb and index to crush them. I'm tired of having yellow fingers. I am considering spraying them with Black Soap. Will it work? I suppose the ants are bringing them.
Black soap? I have no idea what that is!
@@GardeningInCanada I translated the French, Savon Noir. It is a soap made with olive oil or linseed oil.
Any real soap should work.
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You mentioned BT bacteria. I'm very curious how to use it to kill the bad bugs without harming the good bugs. I've been afraid to use it so far out of fear of harming my pollinators. Am I overthinking this?
You just have to spray it on the plants you want to keep, and do it after the bees have gone to bed. It won't kill a bee, but you don't want to get it on a worker and have her bring it back to the nest. It dries and won't really bother anything except a larva that eats it.
F all ants, I don’t care what anyone says they straight up eat my plant roots.
borax or boric acid?
borax - you'll find it in the laundry soap isle in the grocery store
@@SerialSpinner-ss Thank you, I do know where to find both...there is a difference, and I'm wondering if one is better than the other.
I have it linked in the pinned comment
They farm aphid? Of course they do. How cool is that.
They're the worst
Insects are in an extinction event. They will soon be all gone 😮
Ants are not
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Ants killed my beautiful rose bush. Enough said for me.
No they didn’t
Blame your husband, I saw one of those plants a year ago on one of your videos lol
Terro is cheap
She os 1000% incorrect. Don't waste your time
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I have questioned everything you say since I started seeing you on nates channel ! Shows me how much you know? Ants are the only thing other than bees that can pollinate your garden. When there is no bees ants are the only thing other than bees that get the job done ? Your allege sophisticated talk shows me how much misinformation you talk . Show us your personal garden that’s Booming ? Show us your garden since your a master gardener
What a sour comment! Ashley isn't forcing you to watch. I happen to like hearing what she says. She is open to constructive comments and encourages us to experiment and try out ideas without just blindly accepting what we are told. I've never before had anyone confirm my own negative experience with ants in my garden. She is refreshing!