New to "grow-your-own" gardening this year and have been trying to compost using one of the black plastic bin type composters. When I look in the bin now I have a huge ants nest taking over most of the bin. What do I do about the ants and the ants nest? Destroy the nest? The nest is massive and has almost taken over the composter. I realise the ants are working for me but I'm worried about transferring them to the plot. Surely I don't want to be adding ants or the nest to the veg plots?
Many thanks in advance for any help/ suggestions.
Lee
I'm not really sure what to advise but I wouldn't want to spread the ants onto my plot. When we took on our allotment six years ago, it had been unworked for four years and was teeming with ants nests. We reluctantly destroyed them by digging them out, as the ants extensive tunnelling can play havoc with plant root systems. On the part where we made our brassica bed, we hadn't totally got rid of them and the Brussel Sprout plants didn't do very well and ended up as aphid farms....the ants cultivated them which resulted in sooty mould growth on the plants from the excreted honey dew. The sprouts were useless.