dealing with ants in the garden
1 one cup of sugar. 2  one cup of borax. 3  Mix the sugar and borax in a cup, then lightly sprinkle the mixture around the ant hills. 4  The ants will not be able to tell the borax is mixed with the sugar and carry it into the ant colony.he only time the ants might pose a problem is if the population becomes very large, resulting in an outright infestation. Something to watch for with ants in the garden, is aphids. Ants are attracted to aphids due to the fact that aphids give off a sweet secretion.