ants

[djwepg]

I have a heavy wooden container on my patio (6ft x 1'6")
Planting my summer plants yesterday I found it was swarming with ants and a great big ball of ant eggs.
I sprayed it all over with deathlac and topped it up with new compost then put my plants in (trailing begonias, fuschia and geraniums). Will the ants eat my plants .
Should I do anything else to eradicate the ants?

[thundercrack]

if the ants are still about and you want to finish them off totally, if you go into wilko's ( and probably b&q etc) they sell a little round object that contains a poison that you put near your plants, the worker ants eat it, carry it back to the queen, feed it to her , and she feeds all the other workers and they all die. sounds bloody gruesome, but is spraying or using boiling water any more humane?

[cliffy2003]

Ants wont eat your plants but could undermine the roots