The ant and aphid equation (Garden Fertilisers, Pest Control and Herbicides in general)

Member Name: platypus

Product:	Garden Fertilisers, Pest Control and Herbicides in general
Date:	23/05/01 (187 review reads)
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Advantages: It works

Disadvantages: can't think of any

Aphids make a mess of our plants but they provide food for the ants, who nurture, protect and spread them around.If aphids and other suckers are around in small quantities spraying them with a soap solution will get rid of them, but for a heavy infestation only poison will do.
Having done the murderous job I noticed a great flurry of ant activity on the recovering plants, and realised that there lay the root of my problem. In Australia we had a great commercial product called "Ant-rid". A poison laced honey which you put in the ant path. They would partake of it freely and take it to the nest to finish off the rest.It beat spraying them and was far more effective.
Bemoaning it's unavailability in a letter to my school mate I was given the recipe for my own "Ant-rid".
Dissolve a heaped teaspoon of Borax in a cup of boiling water, add sugar till almost saturation and place the resulting syrup on flat containers in the ant path.
Within a week or two I was ant free, and with the ants gone the aphids went too.

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