And not only these horrors, which I dislike intensely, but the smaller, domestic ants which have also been making their presence known; somehow they're not so bad as the flying ones.
I've sat outside during summers past, eating and chatting, and suddenly being bombarded by a swarm of those black, whirring insects, choking the air around you, getting onto your food, your clothes and everything. Apparently, they come just once a summer and are a perfect menace.
I guess if that's their life, you simply have to feel sympathy for them but, it's hard to do so, when their presence is overwhelmingly obnoxious. Of course, the manager of the establishment was in arms over their arrival and resultant distress to his customers, wrung his hands in despair at our's and his discomfiture, but was ultimately, unable to deal fully with the situation which, we all knew would, eventually, be resolved without any assistance from manpower! Mother Nature was in control and there was nothing to be done but wait for the attacking cloud to pass away which, of course it did, all very suddenly.
But back to the ants in the garden and well, there was nothing else to be done, but to boil a kettle and pour it over the offending creatures. A very old-fashioned treatment which still seems to be the best way of dealing with such little devils.
My plants continue to grow, despite the great numbers of Cabbage Whites threatening their very existence and I continue to treat my patch to solutions of soapy water, and keeping tying up the netting which, of course, comes undone, all by itself or with the rain; and the butterflies can, in any case, ease themselves thru' the mesh itself, by just folding one wing over the other and sliding in.
I must see if I can find a smaller mesh netting and or get some anti-cabbage white stuff to spray on???
Perhaps I won't grow cabbages again next year???!
The garden -
I do love to garden - it's definitely a "lovesome thing" ain't it!!!
Daisy
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