If you’re a vegetable gardener, your heart probably skips a beat each summer when you spot the first round of baby zucchinis growing. The second batch is usually as equally exciting. And then typically, it goes down hill from there. Thoughts of “what am I going to do with all this zucchini,” will soon enter your mind and you’ll be trying to figure out how to unload the baseball sized vegetables on to your friends and family.
But today, I want to talk about the babies.
This morning I walked out to the garden with a knife in hand to harvest a few young and tender zucchinis for breakfast. This is our first pick of the season, and I had been planning to make a special breakfast for the Handsome Husband all week with them. But as I was slicing the zucchini from the stalk, I noticed something peculiar.
Ants, and lots of them. The ants were covering practically every zucchini blossom in my patch.
But why?
What does this mean? I have never seen ants on my plants before. Am I doomed? Is there something I should be doing about this so my crop isn’t decimated? Since I don’t use chemicals in my garden {well, besides the two treatments of Miracle Grow each season on my tomato plants} I’m wondering what I should do.
How does one get rid of ants?
Help!
♥ Mavis
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