[siztenboots]

our sweetcorn is behind everyone elses , but the mice have eaten the cobs on most of the other plots on our site.

anything you can think of to deter the pests?

[muntjac]

put circles of card around the stems and remove all the lower leaves that touch the floor .six inxh stiff card cut into a circle then cut to centre , place on stems n then tape together

[DD.]

Short of something that sends out bits of lead at high velocity, what would you suggest about squirrels?

[shaun]

tape a mouse trap to the stem with duct tape   werks for me

[Fat Hen]

Wish I still had my shotgun as rodents very susceptible to high velocity lead poisnoing, very fast acting.

mice coming in my hen pen and knicking their food.  Going to have to resort to humane traps, but what do i do with them when I have caught them.

[Bigbadfrankie]

you need to be a very good shot

[DD.]

tape a mouse trap to the stem with duct tape   werks for me

Know someone who can do 'em in bulk cheap? I'd need 150.

[sweet nasturtium]

I also get rodent trouble, but I think it may be a squirrel.  They seem to just take one cob every couple of days and the stems are bent over so I guess it must be a squirrel.

[muntjac]

you can get squireel traps ... n then shoot em with a air rifle

[shaun]

badgers like sweetcorn

[muntjac]

forgot to mention .. squirrel makes good eating  

[sweet nasturtium]

I had a dreadful feeling you might say that (after having seen your pic with rabbit slaughter)  :roll:

[muntjac]

i teach survival skills now to scouts ,was also an instructor in the service  
and it wasnt slaughter .it was rabbit " pest control " what happens to the cows and chickens in a factory setting is slaughter    

[sweet nasturtium]

OK Muntjac, only joking, you can put the gun down now...  

[muntjac]

i wasnt shooting at you lolo