Fire Ants in Raised Garden Bed

I use Spinosad,have to order it.

Mix a little borax and honey on a shallow dish (or even a plastic lid) and set it by the ant pile. Has worked for me several times in the past.

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little borax and honey on a shallow dish

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This work for fire ants though? I thought it only was for black/sugar ants.

borax does work. Another way to use it is to mix borax and dry sugar and put it in a jar with holes punched in the lid. They’ll carry the tainted sugar back to the mound

Ants are BAD this year....

a trick that i've used a couple times that worked surprisingly well was finding another large pile in the yard a scraping the whole pile into a five gallon bucket and dumping that onto the pile i dont want. before dumping it onto the unwanted pile i smashed the unwanted pile to get them angry. i saw that trick from some guy on youtube and tried it out and it actually works. it doesnt kill the ants but they will move out of your garden to a place you can poison them.

another post i saw was to cover the ant bed with a black trashbag so that they basically get cooked in the sun. leave it for two days and they'll be gone to a palce where you can poison them.

even easier is just to flood them out with a hose. They’ll move out eventually. There is some research saying that fire ants can actually be a beneficial predator in a vegetable garden but that’s little comfort when you go to work the beds.