Thanks for that idea, of the ant sand. I may go for this, as I have had a minor problem with them.
Though when I lived in Colorado they were worse. I had those tough little hairy monsters, the large red ones. I have seen those things climb blades of grass and jump onto grasshopper carcasses below them..... scary little fellas. And the pain they can cause to a human, so much greater than their size, is admirable.... intolerable for me, but admirable none the less. :hubba:
One way to get rid of them of course is to pour some flammable liquid onto their mound (as mentioned above) when they are all out and about..... but this is seen as cruel by me now days, and even regret doing this when I was first starting out. I should have picked a new spot....
.... or gotten some ant sand.
Any-who, I wanted to add one other piece of mind, and share something I experienced the other day:
I was out getting some dirt ready, and decided to check the dirt in a previous grow bucket from last season. I poured out the dirt into a wheelbarrow, and it came out in a big chunk shaped like the bucket. I busted it open and saw that the bucket and its dirt had become home to a thousand little tiny ants of the black color.
I decided to use this dirt to fill some holes my dogs had dug.....
But yep.... before using any old dirt you might have used before, keep in mind, it might not be spent of nutrients, but it might be crawling with critters. So make sure and dump those old pots and go through it first, just in case.
Okay then..... have I made an obvious enough post that many already knew of these ideas before? Good!