If they are sweet-eating ants @Kate Ellery, you can mix sugar and boric acid to make a sweet solution and put it out for the ants to eat. It will usually kill the entire colony, but it must be kept away from children and animals (other than ants).
Try Borax and a little sugar on the mound. Also I carefully take some from a pile and add them to another pile and they kill each other fighting over territory. Whats left moves. Ants are terrible here. And won't sting till there are lots of you. Its like one gives comand after they on you like " ok everyone sting now".
Wife is working today, so I have to go pick up her $248 order of flower plugs in a few minutes. They were supposed to arrive yesterday, but were delayed. Some of the back roads are becoming impassable in ordinary vehicles, so my ol' truck is coming in handy. Her car was kicked out of the heated garage last night to make room for more plant shelves, so she had to toughen up this morning since it was +16 F. when she left for work. She will spend much of tomorrow transplanting her stock of new plants.
Now that we've finished the front landscaping re-do, I think the remainder of my 2022 gardening will be purchasing a couple of hanging baskets for the patio.
Do you do your landscaping yourself? I tried working out last night and thought I was going to die! I am not sure how much work I can still do. Two years ago I picked up and unloaded 2700lbs of block. Last year I moved 10 of them and could barely pull the wagon! This morning I can pick up a full mug of coffee...
Unfortunately, we did. We tried finding a landscape service but the only one who made an appointment was a no-show. So we got out there and dug up the old hedges and got busy. It's nothing special but it took us 4 days to do what we would have done in a single day a couple of years ago.
Beth we aren't as good as we once was, but like you so far we do manage to get it done. At least some of it.
Haven't checked on gardening much been too busy with oral surgeons and stuff.. Harvested a few long red sweet peppers and tomatoes, but squash still hasn't produced, every time it blooms ,we get another frost.
My baby Atomic tomatoes are growing, and they should be large enough to put some outside before too long, now that it looks like the weather is maybe finally warming up. One of the youtube videos I was watching showed making a teepee form, and then growing climbing/vining plants on that. The guy in the video was growing pole beans, but I am also thinking that the cherry tomatoes might grow up one of the teepee frames, too. I asked Mr. Bobby to help me make the base part of the frame from some of the bamboo that he cut down, and then I will use the smaller pieces to make the horizontal cross pieces.
You will have to tie up the tomato plants though, as they don't climb and attach themselves around the poles as beans do.