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Sorry to see all the corn being eaten as well as the peaches and kale. Can't believe the chillie plant is not what we thought it was. We were so looking forward to getting some chillies! Hope you can keep the rats and possums away. Must be so disheartening!

I've found by having some kitties, they tend to keep away rodents, as the rodents are deterred from their smell, as cats are their natural predators...

Hi Riss. Critters are fair game for me if they compete with me. I've seen a few videos showing rats caught in a bucket with a trap door at top. Maybe get a cat?

Sorry you lost your corn. It was definitely rats. You need to bait heavily every 3 months or so and get a yard cat. I live next to a school and have chickens and I have learnt the hard way to have to deal with rats early

Heartbreaking, but it brought me some comfort that I'm not the only one with rats chewing holes in my cages and eating everything 😢

I would be devastated too. In three days of big hail, we had so much damage this past week. Hoping you can get it sorted

Same happened to me. I tried every trap available. In the end, I threw baits everywhere. Humanely killing them? Nope... just do baits.

That is a shame about your corn. I had a crop of corn suffer the same fate once. It was a crop of about 100 cobs eaten by rats on one night. I was not happy the next day.

Nice rockmelon, I never knew they grow like that

Oh no I'm so sorry about your corn! 😢Rats ate my tomatoes last year too, not nice at all! The garden is looking soo good! 💕✨

Oh what a nightmare! Would recommend replacing your screens with wire mesh - surely strong enough to stop the blimmin rats! Wire would allow the bees to get in without having to open up too.

I use the metal cages to trap rats in my garden. I have had the most success using Chilli (Birds Eye etc) as the bait, which is basically free bait as we have a few Chilli plants growing. I've caught 11 by just using Chilli. This afternoon I set another trap and this time I'm trying a piece Jalapeño chilli. Also, yes, that mystery plant looks exactly like Yellow Tumeric. I have lost corn to rats in the past, I cut off the eaten cobs and left the stalks in the ground and they produced more cobs of corn. 🙂 All the best!

I would be devastated too! We're in Sydney and currently battling citrus bugs (we lost our whole lemon crop), fruit flies and 28-spotted ladybeetles (a new one for us!). We also have 3 resident brushtail possums and are going for the "exclude and distract" method ... They fill up on our roses and parsley but they can have them as long as they leave the tomatoes alone. Fingers crossed the rats stay away!!

As i said ive had the corn growing in weird spots. This rain has been a pain. So many snails. Im waiting for the powdery mildew next. My tomatoes are suffering too. Lets hope things improve

Hi there, thank you for your video. I have similar problems with the rats eating my pepino melons. I plan to spray the bags with chilli spray and see how that goes.

Little buggers! Crime Safe that garden bed, PS I don't work for them I have their product.

LOVE THIS!!! Your garden is so beautiful.

The large metal cage live traps you get from bunnings definitely work. I've caught many a rat using them. Think they are called big cheese or something. The attractant they sell also works really well, I know you can save some money using stuff from home but I can vouch for our well it attracts them. I'd set out one or two out and relocate far from the house if you don't feel comfortable killing them. I will never use baits, they are extremely impactful to native wildlife e.g. owls and frogmouths. I had an issue with a few rats that would frequent my patch and overtime I managed to catch and relocate them to the local park.

It’s not to late to grow corn I live in Queensland

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When I was living in Gympie I had a 140 ears destroyed by corn worms,it blows 😢

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o no, sorry to hear that. i was looking forward to the corn harvest video.

The tomatoes are looking great 👍 👌.

😮😮 Oh, my. Word. I'm so sorry 🫂.

I recently moved into a place at the Gabba. All the leaves from my Basil were eaten one night, I spotted a rodent on my balcony last week and yesterday, I saw a rat crossing the street to the Community Garden, and NOW THIS! Are we in Rat Season, or are conditions ripe for rat plague? Batten down the hatches.

So sorry, it’s demoralising when this happens. 😢 I had a rat chew a hole in my dalek style compost bin this spring! I baited the offender then spread chilli powder around the outside perimeter of the bin as a deterrent. It’s working so far.

When you grow things there's always something trying to eat it. Not had trouble with rats but have with other pests. Thanks for the video. Just had our first snow this week in the UK. Temperatures have been down to minus 5c. All the best 🇬🇧.

We once left the gate open to our garden on our farm overnight and the cows got in and ate every single plant of every single veggie down to the ground. Like 300 different plants, including corn!

Oh my that is terrible, hard to think they did so much over night , I've had lucks trapping , but you have to make some sort of box so the rat has to walk into the trap from the end and that way they get trapped , if the go into the trap from the side or wrong end they just trip the trap.

You should put up some game cameras to try and see what's eating your food

Oh, heartbreaking! After all you put into it, just to feed rats. Nothing makes me appreciate how CHEAP food is to buy than growing or raising my own. This is why. Always something unexpected to put you back at square one. But the successful times make us push on and try again, hey. Thanks for sharing. It makes me wonder how we've been able to grow corn in the open, because rats are around. Maybe the trick is to grow 10 x what you want to harvest. I dunno.

Bummer! Nature's tax was high this year. Chin up, there's always a balance in nature and I'm sure you'll do well elsewhere in the garden👍

How devastating! Those little buggas will chop thru anything to get "their" food. Have you thought of using some sort of fencing wire.instead of netting. I'm not sure what it's called but similar to chicken coop fencing. Good luck.

I had a problem with rats in my polytunnel this year for the first time. Lost most of my tomatoes, until I sadly took the step of bringing in rat poison. The rest of the crop survived after that, but I'm going to have to keep poisoning rats as I have geese and they come for the goose food (which I need to provide because there are foxes that eat the geese if I let them roam...). Nature can be frustrating, when you try to tame it!

Keep pushing

Oh Riss, that's heartbreaking 😢. SEQ fruit and vege gardening and Rats and Possums seem to be common foes, especially if you have Chickens I reckon. Chicken wire cages would stop them but doesn't look attractive 😕. I feel your pain aa I've lost things to critters and I finally have my 1st Banana flower forming 😁. On another note I don't think it's too late to wack another crop of sweet corn in, but do it soon. Got to keep trying.

No! How devastating 😢

I battled with rats for a few years. Especially after they knocked some houses down around us. They ate EVEREYTHING. Even the bark off my mulberry tree!! I love nature and don't want to kill anything..... but the rats broke me.... so out came the poison.

Yes it is turmeric

So sorry! It happened to a friend of mine at Capalaba, lost the lot to rats!

How disappointing and infuriating. Also to now have lost the mesh bags too 😢 I can’t believe how they peeled the corn and ate it on the cob like that!! My garden is also struggling with this rain. I spotted a huge water dragon laying between 2 beds recently and I suspect he’s been eating my tomatoes. They’re not going great and I keep finding remnants all over the ground. I was only thinking the other day that summer may be too hard for growing in SEQ 🤔 I hope your problem is sorted very soon 🤞

I think we need to upgrade the flyscreen to the crimsafe stuff. That should sort out the issue 😤

I feel your pain

The hot weather is hanging about so concentrate on plants that thrive in hot conditions

I had the same thing happen to my corn ...so I've started again making sure I have the seed protected with Avery mesh...it's the infestation of cane Beetles that's caused all the mice n rats

I feel your pain! Had a huge structure built, like a glass house but with wire mesh in place of glass, to make a rat proof area. An expensive solution but very satisfying. Wire needs to go underneath too, as they dig.

Try a simple homemade rait bait, which is safe to other animals bar rodents. Cut a hole in a side of a margarine about the same as the hole in the net, then mix equal parts flour and baking soda /powder,. Half a cup of both, then place near where you suspect they go. Tip out and redo every few days. Gl.

I sympathise. I can't grow sunflowers because the native cockroaches eat my seeds and they even have come onto my cement veranda and got them in the elevated pots. They also chewed all my seedlings off. They are my hardest animal as they are under the soil and come up on top too. With the corn I feel you! My corn tassels all got eaten by grasshoppers so they didn't get pollinated :( and the year before that most got ruined by earwigs. I feel your pain. Gardening is hard .. I want to get netting but I'm going to have concrete the bases as the native cockroaches even live in the super hard clay and will just go up through the soil. In fact the native cockroaches are eating my partners cactuses.. geeze if it wasn't hard enough with Qld fruit fly stinging cucumbers, zucchinis and pumpkins and all fruit. It's a war zone esp when I won't harm any little critters. So sorry for your losses and I feel it deep in my soul!

Hi Larissa, I'm in the South East too, and also have a rat problem. They've been at everything. I bought a humane trap and have caught 4 over the last week. I still have my sweet corn at the moment, and it'll be arse whooping time if they touch those.