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Casie Jones

How do I keep ant hills from forming near my plants and bugs eating my leaves? My entire back yard is sand. I've had to put in fenced in soil.

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  1. Snowstorm

    Have you tried using diatomaceous earth?

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    • Casie Jones

      I've never heard of it.

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    • Snowstorm

      It’s a really fine powder (similar texture to talc but not harmful at all) that you dust in your plants/soil to prevent pests. Works great on my tomatoe plants. To pests it’s like little razor blades and they can’t cross through. I find it at my local hardware store in the gardening department, big box stores should def have it, and it’s pretty inexpensive.

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  2. LadyTenorJD

    I container garden, personally. But the ants have found some of my plants. I think it would be worse if I planted in ground.

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