Major insect/bug infestation in the garden (*REALLY bad)
Major insect/bug infestation in the garden (*REALLY* bad)
We have an ant colony that has taken over the whole length of the garden that has uprooted plants in the years past, we have wolf spiders that grow up there, and they go back to lay eggs there. Idk if that's normal wolf spider behavior, but it's literally how these ones work, I would almost swear they go back to the garden on purpose to have their young and let them grow up there. You can't do anything in that garden without being covered in them. I tried getting ahead of it this year but ended up waking everyone up and had a dozen groggy spiders and several dozen groggy, stiff ants on me whilst working it. I found 2 centipedes, a friendly millipede.
I was wondering if using a bit of diatomaceous earth once, and maybe mixing a lil soap and baking soda and lightly spraying the top of the garden bed a few times before planting anything would help? What's the best way to go about this?
Wish I had pics, but it's BAD. One year a cluster of wolf spiders overtook about ⅕ of the 12x4 ft garden bed with an about 1 inch thick mat of webbing that killed some of our young plants and we abandoned the rest to the spiders. We've had ants uproot our plants before as well. It's a nightmare to work with unfortunately.
We're trying again this year but I don't want to kill everything with tilling it or something, and we only have this one spot that makes a good place for gardening, or I'd leave it to the ant colony.