May the new year be good to you, too!
When you're working in your garden and it's a large space, it's never easy. However, getting your hands in the soil and helping your plants thrive and become beautiful and lush is truly rewarding.
We lost a lot of plants at home, because of lack of water and many bugs proliferated and ate my basil and other ornamental plants (which apparently were very tasty, too). My sister advised me to spread cabbage scraps all over the yard, especially near the ant nests and it turns out that at home, I use cabbage almost daily. Since that day, about a year ago, I spread the parts of the cabbage we don't eat on the ground and the ants take it to their nests and when they ferment, this releases gases that kill the colonies. I keep thinking that I'm kind of ecocidal for doing this, but it was really the ants or the plants. They were out of control. Now you can see only some bugs around as it supposed to be.
That's fascinating! I never knew that about ants and cabbage. I only have kale, sadly and plenty of ants around where it's growing, so I guess it doesn't work the sand as cabbage.