Allotment Gardening Advice Help Chat
Growing => Grow Your Own => Topic started by: siztenboots on September 15, 2007, 18:29
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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?
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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
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Short of something that sends out bits of lead at high velocity, what would you suggest about squirrels????
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tape a mouse trap to the stem with duct tape :wink: werks for me
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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.
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you need to be a very good shot :lol:
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tape a mouse trap to the stem with duct tape :wink: werks for me
Know someone who can do 'em in bulk cheap? I'd need 150.
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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.
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you can get squireel traps ... n then shoot em with a air rifle
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badgers like sweetcorn
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forgot to mention .. squirrel makes good eating :wink:
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I had a dreadful feeling you might say that (after having seen your pic with rabbit slaughter) :roll:
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i teach survival skills now to scouts ,was also an instructor in the service :wink:
and it wasnt slaughter .it was rabbit " pest control " what happens to the cows and chickens in a factory setting is slaughter :) :wink:
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OK Muntjac, only joking, you can put the gun down now... :wink:
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i wasnt shooting at you lolo :lol: :wink:
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When the fella next to my plot lost his corn to mice , i wondered about prevention, naturally.
Collars was what i though of, like the anti-rat jobs on ship ropes. Havent done corn this year but probably will next though.
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Never had much of a problem (except for some nibbling of cobs left on to dry out for seed saving) until this year and it's become a bit of problem.
I use heavy duty plastic dpm fixed vertically to my cold frame to stop mice climbing up and wondered if wrapping the stems at the base would work.
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you can use grease as well . dont let any leaves droop down to the floor :wink:
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On an earlier thread someone mentioned cutting drinks bottles up the side and sliding over the cobs, and I think someone else wrapped them in fleece and rubber bands; but if mice can eat through most things, don't know how much of a challenge this would be.
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yes i went down the plastic bottle route and have really enjoyed my unnibbled cobbs this year :lol: the thing is not to put them on too early and to ventilate them. a bit time consuming i know but def worth it
marg
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Use the un-nibbled lower part of the cobs to make sweetcorn relish.
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spot the one that has had the bottle on (if i can get photobucket to work)
fingers crossed
(http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i229/theothermarg/sweetcornbottleexperiment.jpg)
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The one on the right - all the kernals have been stripped off when you pushed the bottle on. Correct?
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Going to have to resort to humane traps, but what do i do with them when I have caught them.
You keep them for pets.
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you need to be a very good shot :lol:
not really, depends what species,rats are deeeeaaaad slow............
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forgot to mention .. squirrel makes good eating :wink:
that just reminds me of my favorite environmental problem and solution, why don't we eat them s***ing pigeons???????????? Mad!!!!!!!!!! They are much better than chicken , to say the least.
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forgot to mention .. squirrel makes good eating :wink:
that just reminds me of my favorite environmental problem and solution, why don't we eat them s***ing pigeons???????????? Mad!!!!!!!!!! They are much better than chicken , to say the least.
i do :wink:
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where is all this mice thing is coming from, mind gobbling ...
Mice and slugs, however ferocious they are, are not behind everything, all the time, seems to make sense to me.
that's not gardening, that's just bullying.