Ants in flower pots good or bad? I grow my peppers in pots and yesterday when I was doing a transplant I found an ant colony living in one of my plants. On the one hand I thought that they are keeping the soil aerated but then I wondered if they munch on the roots. I am hoping putting them in a larger pot will kill them all off before they can figure out how to dig their way out but if I see a lot of activity I can always seal off the drain holes, fill it with water until it is saturated then let it sit for an hour. What would you do?
I have never read any thing positive about having ants in your garden.
I take old cornmeal and spread it around on the beds that have ants. Then they are gone. IIRC, ants think it’s food, but can’t actually digest it, so they eat it, but actually starve to death.
Read about it somewhere and tried it. It seemed to work.