[Hey Jude]

Found an ants nest in the ploytunnel, they're not making a beeline for any of the crops but I don't want them! - any ideas as to the best way to get rid of them? Thank you. Jude.

[Flump]

Hi,I think it was on this site somewhere that someone said used coffee grounds are poisonous to ants.I use the organic ant killer which does work.

[Hey Jude]

Thanks Flump, I'll try and get some tomorrow, Jude.

[moose]

I use polenta sprinkled round the nest. The theory is that the ants take it to the queen who will eat it and can't digest it so dies = end of nest. Same idea as using bran around plants to deal with slugs.

[gardener247]

i dug over the soil but then i got a load of female ants(the ones with wings) but within a week they were dead and gone

[Hey Jude]

Moose, will definitely try the polenta as I've got some in the cupboard, thanks.

[elibump]

Brilliant, I'll try the polenta as I've got an enourmous ants nest next to my strawberries and having discovered 3 very large red strawberries and gone to pick them, the backs were all missing and there were ants all over them    and polenta seems more organic than chemicals to me.

Eli xx

[viettaclark]

I've got a huge nest under the whole garden and patio. Grass is bald and yellow in places despite care. I read somewhere that there is a gynormous nest that stretches all across the country so I haven't a hope in hell of getting rid of them. My chickens eat ants...but not enough! Is there anything else that eats them?