How to Kill Ants - Without Toxic Chemicals
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For people with cats and dogs, using chemicals about the house and yard is always a risk. If, however, you have ants, you may be willing to take the risk just to be rid of these unwelcomed visitors. There is a safe way to do this. Use old coffee grounds. That will fix the ant problem; and your cat and dog are not at risk.
If there is an area of the garden that you want to protect, a border of coffee grounds will keep the ants away. If you happen to find where the ant hill is, place coffee grounds on the ant hill and around the area. You will see that your ant problem has vanished in a couple of days.
The theory of why this works is that the residual caffeine in the coffee grounds does not agree with the ants. It is supposedly deadly to the ants. In any case, it works. And if you have a huge problem with ants, you might want to stop at the local coffee shop and ask for the grounds that they are throwing away. The grounds that you don’t use can be used as nitrogen for your compost and / or garden. The coffee shop will be glad to see you hauling away their trash.
Catherine Forsythe
[tags]ants, toxic chemicals, dogs, cats, coffee grounds, caffeine, compost, garden, nitrogen[/tags]
2 Comments
D Pollock
October 3rd, 2007
at 9:21am
Hello,
Have tried this method, and yes it does work. Although the ants move the mound to a different area. Would work best if used with seed spreader to cover whole yard. Then listen for the screams of your neighbors :o)
Stan
July 7th, 2008
at 6:19pm
Coffe ground does deter the ants but it does not prevent them from building another ant hill nearby. It would be better to kill the ants instead of just scaring them and letting the ants build their ant hill closeby.
If the ants happen to be in the backyard, liquid multipurpose cleaner made with orange oil is very effective. The liquid can be bought in any dollar store for $1 and the bubbles from the liquid suffocates the ants and causes them to die instantly. Directly spray on ants and ant hills everyday and the ants number will decrease drastically until one day there would be no more ants.