iv got mice and rats in my greenhouse ....when i grow veg seed i sprinkle the top in pots and trays with with hot curry powder and water from the bottom so it docent get washed away
I put off growing any of our own veg for 15 years because of rats, with living on a farm. Thankfully videos like yours showed me everyone has the same issues anyway. Started growing last summer and had a lovely season. More challenges this year I think, due to the new plot layout, but still hoping not to share too much with them
Hi happy new year. We had mice eat our sunflowers one year. These are learning curves of gardening. I don’t like wild rats but with an allotment you are always going to have rats. This is where they live we have intruded on their home land whatever. Cats frequent allotments so no way put poison down. We had rats living Uber our shed on our postage stamp garden. Stanley my hubby emptied shed and disturbed their home took away the habitat they like. They will always find somewhere else. Break up their run or tunnels as they all have these so they make new ones elsewhere. Try not to leave rubbish around that might give them a warm cozy bed. You just need to move stuff regularly cos they do nest in a rubbish area that’s not disturbed. In our shed at home they came from the field and tunnelled under the shed and up into it. We blocked it up and they ate thru the door to get out. We don’t like them and they don’t like us but we all have to get along somehow as this is their home they were there first. We don’t really have the right but we think we do. Foxes the same. It’s their nature to kill hens rabbits whatever it’s up to us to make sure our livestock secure and safe. It’s hard I know I will be 70 this year and have seen a lot. We had mice in our pantry. They must have come in from the field we have a walk in pantry. Unfortunately we had to trap them I hated that but it was our food. I had to throw so much away and clean and disinfect everything a nightmare. Now we always try to close the door properly. In early evening in twilight I sometimes watch the little mice come out through our French windows looking for crumbs.we used to throw bits down for the birds the robins love to come right up to the doors but I realised I am attracting mice too so now I throw on shed roof or our many bird feeding stations. So yes we need to guard and protect so they move on somewhere else that’s not gonna bother us but they do live amongst us and always will.
Exactly its not just our habitat. It all of nature's too. I don't mind the odd one here and there. But I just don't want to provide too many homily conditions for them. You offer some great advice and ill take them on board. Thank you 😊
It's quite alarming 🥺 Hope you manage to get rid of them. I don't like them,I would be horrified if I found them on my plot. However,you have made me more aware,thank you.☺️Xx
Hello, I'm a new subscriber and I like your channel very much, try peppermint oil as rodents and insect pests don't like it at all so will do their best to avoid it. As an old rat hunter I could give you some good tips to get rid of them but most people these days would rather not kill them. The peppermint oil isn't a quick fix so you will occasionally need to sprinkle it around the greenhouse inside and out and they will leave. I do know that it works as I had them in my shed and back yard in the summer of 2022, I did humanely bump a few off but once I'd got the peppermint oil sprinkled about they left, otherwise I would have had to dispatch them all. This was caused by some relatively easy access (my fault) and the idiot foreign person next door feeding pigeons on the ground. By the way, please don't handle the soil/compost that rats have been in as there are a number of very deadly diseases that rats carry and they are double incontinent. I hope that I have been able to help. Take care and all the best. Stevie
Excellent advice and welcome to the channel 😀. Yea they are messy critters. I'll try the peppermint oil. I've always reverted to either minty or citrus oils chilli powder etc as a natural deterrent. I'll give it a go and show if it works 👍 Some great advice thank you 😊
I have had a lot of trouble with rats at my home not so much at my allotment. I have used snap traps using as bait Mars bar,Twix, Snickers etc.anything with sticky caramel,they work,I got a number of "good rats". With so called 'humain' traps ,you still have to kill the rats,or transport them another location, release them and you may be bit on release,you will make them someone else's problem . A snap trap is very quick and the end of the problem,good luck with your choice, Derek Co Down, N Ireland
iv got mice and rats in my greenhouse ....when i grow veg seed i sprinkle the top in pots and trays with with hot curry powder and water from the bottom so it docent get washed away
Thanks for the information. Its one of the routes I'm going to try. 👍 I've used it with reasonable success before
I put off growing any of our own veg for 15 years because of rats, with living on a farm.
Thankfully videos like yours showed me everyone has the same issues anyway. Started growing last summer and had a lovely season.
More challenges this year I think, due to the new plot layout, but still hoping not to share too much with them
It's great you've finally got to growing 👍. Hopefully, this season will be even better for you
Hi happy new year. We had mice eat our sunflowers one year. These are learning curves of gardening. I don’t like wild rats but with an allotment you are always going to have rats. This is where they live we have intruded on their home land whatever. Cats frequent allotments so no way put poison down. We had rats living Uber our shed on our postage stamp garden. Stanley my hubby emptied shed and disturbed their home took away the habitat they like. They will always find somewhere else. Break up their run or tunnels as they all have these so they make new ones elsewhere. Try not to leave rubbish around that might give them a warm cozy bed. You just need to move stuff regularly cos they do nest in a rubbish area that’s not disturbed. In our shed at home they came from the field and tunnelled under the shed and up into it. We blocked it up and they ate thru the door to get out. We don’t like them and they don’t like us but we all have to get along somehow as this is their home they were there first. We don’t really have the right but we think we do. Foxes the same. It’s their nature to kill hens rabbits whatever it’s up to us to make sure our livestock secure and safe. It’s hard I know I will be 70 this year and have seen a lot. We had mice in our pantry. They must have come in from the field we have a walk in pantry. Unfortunately we had to trap them I hated that but it was our food. I had to throw so much away and clean and disinfect everything a nightmare. Now we always try to close the door properly. In early evening in twilight I sometimes watch the little mice come out through our French windows looking for crumbs.we used to throw bits down for the birds the robins love to come right up to the doors but I realised I am attracting mice too so now I throw on shed roof or our many bird feeding stations. So yes we need to guard and protect so they move on somewhere else that’s not gonna bother us but they do live amongst us and always will.
Exactly its not just our habitat. It all of nature's too. I don't mind the odd one here and there. But I just don't want to provide too many homily conditions for them. You offer some great advice and ill take them on board. Thank you 😊
It's quite alarming 🥺
Hope you manage to get rid of them.
I don't like them,I would be horrified if I found them on my plot.
However,you have made me more aware,thank you.☺️Xx
Unfortunately they really are everywhere. But moving them on is important. I'll win eventually 🤣
Hello, I'm a new subscriber and I like your channel very much, try peppermint oil as rodents and insect pests don't like it at all so will do their best to avoid it. As an old rat hunter I could give you some good tips to get rid of them but most people these days would rather not kill them. The peppermint oil isn't a quick fix so you will occasionally need to sprinkle it around the greenhouse inside and out and they will leave. I do know that it works as I had them in my shed and back yard in the summer of 2022, I did humanely bump a few off but once I'd got the peppermint oil sprinkled about they left, otherwise I would have had to dispatch them all. This was caused by some relatively easy access (my fault) and the idiot foreign person next door feeding pigeons on the ground. By the way, please don't handle the soil/compost that rats have been in as there are a number of very deadly diseases that rats carry and they are double incontinent. I hope that I have been able to help. Take care and all the best. Stevie
Excellent advice and welcome to the channel 😀. Yea they are messy critters. I'll try the peppermint oil. I've always reverted to either minty or citrus oils chilli powder etc as a natural deterrent.
I'll give it a go and show if it works 👍
Some great advice thank you 😊
I have had a lot of trouble with rats at my home not so much at my allotment. I have used snap traps using as bait Mars bar,Twix, Snickers etc.anything with sticky caramel,they work,I got a number of "good rats". With so called 'humain' traps ,you still have to kill the rats,or transport them another location, release them and you may be bit on release,you will make them someone else's problem . A snap trap is very quick and the end of the problem,good luck with your choice, Derek Co Down, N Ireland
Thanks for the advice. I'll look into it 😊. I did hear they have a sweet tooth for caramel