Get Rid of Ants & Aphids FOR GOOD In Your Garden 🐜

Ants and aphids have been teaming up for over 35 million years, and you might be seeing that exact relationship in your garden right now. In this video, we’ll explore how this age-old partnership affects your plants and what you can do about it. PLUS, I teamed up with my favorite ant expert, @AntsCanada, to answer the big question: are too many ants really a bad thing? 🤔

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TIMESTAMPS
00:00 - Intro
00:28 - Are Too Many Ants In Your Garden Actually A Bad Thing?
01:32 - Ants & Aphids
03:54 - Identifying When It Becomes A Problem
04:20 - Method 1: Watering Method
04:43 - Method 2: Using Boiling Water
05:15 - Method 3: Borax & Sugar Solution
06:27 - Spraying Aphids For Removal

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[epicgardening]

Big shoutout to Ants Canada for the feature! Go check out his channel, it's certified epic. - Kevin

[Bindy]

I could never grow cucumbers until I started coating the bottom of the vine with a thick coat of Vaseline. The ants got stuck in the Vaseline and couldn’t go up the vine. I hosed off any pest that got near the flowers in the beginning. After that I didn’t need to do anything. Got at least 40 cucumbers off that vine.

[firefly]

Biologist here! I have to clarify for 2:52 - honeydew isn't excrement, it's just that the phloem in the plants is so high-pressure compared to the aphids, it literally forces its way through them. It'd be like a human trying to drink from a fire hydrant. Gotta love nature.

[cyfslic]

Hi-larious animation! Now I can’t unsee an ant tickling an aphid. Thanks a lot!

[fyofrep]

Love seeing all the butterflies flying around in the background. Gorgeous garden!

[SusthaniaTatiana]

I actually watch AntsCanada too, this is a real treat

[springflowerdark]

Garlic water with a few drops of dish soap worked for me. I boiled the garlic for a few hours. Let it cool, put it in a spray bottle and went to work.

[haylee.noelle]

A few drops of dish soap in a spray bottle with water worked well for me this year! I have a patio garden with no hose so I just spray them off the leaves, remove any leaves that have a lot of aphids on them, and wipe them off leaves with gloves on. It is the only thing that has worked for aphids in my patio garden.

[mommafraser]

@5:27 love how the butterflies came by to say hi 😂😊❤

[Alfwin]

I lost a bean crop last year to ants & aphids. One of the things I tried was introducing predators - specifically ladybugs - to try to reduce the aphid population, but the ants were too effective as guards. I remember watching them body-blocking and chasing away any ladybug that tried to attack an aphid.

[corinneowens]

Never had to deal with aphids in my garden before until this year, so I'm glad you're sharing your wisdom about this! I just live in a townhouse, and my garden is in a raised bed and pots. My 10 year old wanted to plant and grow some fruit trees, and we've seen groups of aphids near the tops of the saplings. We've tried a couple of things to clear them off, but we'll also try your methods as well. Thank you!

[zymurgist]

I've had great success with diatomaceous earth. Excellent against earwigs, too.

[crystaltoyne]

Yessss!!! My summer garden was taken over by aphids. I barely got any harvest:( it was my first time gardening, so it was a big disappointment. Thanks for the video!

[robincardoza]

I'm in Florida. I hate the ants. They swarm my plants, escort the aphids to the new leaves on some of my trees, bring in weed seeds and bite me. They suck!

[bluelilly]

Another solution....when you wash the rice, take the first water fill it up in a air jar or a bottle...leave for 15days in a dark place, the water gets fermented...spray that fermented water over the affected area, and the Aphids loose their wax coat n can easily clear them..

[mannjaeger]

Shout out to your Epic Editor! Heckin love the person!

[shellycarter]

You could spray the aphids while on the plants with whole milk. The milk then dries very quickly and crystallizes on the aphids and smothers them. The milk spray method works very quickly, within a couple of days! There is no foul order and doesn’t hurt the plants or beneficial bugs. Very inexpensive as well!

[moekusaki]

I've lost many battles with aphids eating my vegetables... I decided to just work with them and grew a sacrificial plant they can munch on for a long time like my dying calendula plant. Keeps them busy!!

[cameronnicholson]

Hey this is the collab we’ve all been waiting for . I’m gonna need you to go to Mikey Bustos’ farm in the Philippines and make this most beautiful garden to date !

[sequoiawarner]

The tiny sugar ants have been crazy bad, I dry mixed borax and sugar, will try making the paste this time. Have found frequent watering the flower pots on the deck drowned out the ants. But what I was wondering about was so many sticky plants, oh honey dew! Built a garden in what was a weed fill lot last year and pest control has been a harsh learning curve. Thanks for this video!