Those words seem kind of ironic, don’t they?  I consider myself a child of The Most High.  I am a very loving person, and care for others deeply.  But when a predator comes against my garden and doesn’t want to leave, it’s WAR!  Those ants just did not want to leave my garden!  I tried the grits, I tried the garlic, I tried the cayenne pepper, I tried the vinegar poured down into their home and nothing seemed to work.  These things have moved/destroyed ant colonies for me in the past, but not this time.  They did not want to budge.

So here is the disaster that I blame completely on the ants!

I present to you the place where my watermelon and cantaloupe plants once stood. The cantaloupe were almost completely shriveled, so there was no saving them.  I transferred about five of my watermelon plants to a pot, but I don’t know that they will survive.  It was very hard getting them out with ants swarming everywhere.  So after I moved them, I took out my shovel and dug that ant colony out of there (as best I could). And can you believe I was only bit once?

Hopefully they will now reside away from my garden,  where I can do my best to get rid of them without hurting my garden. In my garden area that I dug, I sprayed with Melaleuca Tough & Tender (I can here the grunts now – sorry I was out of vinegar), and then I sprinkled salt around the edge closest to my other plants in hopes that the ants that are left will go the other way.  I don’t even know if this is going to work, but I wasn’t really able to get much information on what to do other than put chemicals in my garden.  And that is something I just could not do!  The Tough & Tender was bad enough.

So that is my revenge.  All invaders prepare for battle!