Allotment Gardening Advice Help Chat
Growing => Grow Your Own => Topic started by: MickyB on October 25, 2013, 21:19
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Where, right there on my allotment :dry:
It was sat a cool as a cucumber at the back of one of my raised beds, it didn't even flinch when I got down to check if it was dead or alive, (it was alive). I just let it be, I figured that finding a mouse in the wild, albeit a cultivated wild, is only to be expected but should I be worried about the presence of a mouse?
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They are very partial to sweetcorn, peas, beans, pumpkin, blackberries etc so I would ask it to find a new home.
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I was the only one on our site yesterday as I walked up to the toilet there was one of your mouses bigger cousins sitting in the middle of the path. I didn't bother going to the toilet as he didn't seem to interested in moving out of my way :(
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OH was discombobulated whilst digging up the spuds. Very painful I hear you squeal :lol:
As he was digging a whole family came up from the ground where he was digging. He said there were about 8 of them.
I didn't ask what the outcome was, but I suspect it involved the spade. ::)
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I fook the heavy cover of a manure and green compost pile in the late summer to check its progress to be greeted by a whole family mum dad and plenty toddlers lolol then when I was harvestin my sweetcorn that was close to it found out what theyd raised there toddlers on tey all looked very healthy lol
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When I was turning the compost bin the other week,there was I right in the bin(it's big,needs to be) when all of a sudden I saw a movement,from a safe distance of outside the bin I saw 4 or 5 tiny mice vacating the bin but 2 got lost, I helped 1 on the right way to join it's siblings with the spade but the other 1 I ended up picking up by it's tail & popping through the gap. I know I'll curse when they eat my crops,but they were very cute & I really couldn't have clobbered them with the spade :nowink:
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MickyB - there is never only one mouse :lol: you may see one on his own but see .....
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I will have to check around the area of the sighting as there are a couple of cut off pieces of plastic pipes which might make a nice nesting site :ohmy:
The spade technique is not for me but if I can catch them I might relocate them to the local woods.
Thanks for the video link! If they wasn't so cute it would give me nightmares. ;)
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I would just leave them be on my plot. I am sure there are thousands of rats, mice, badgers etc in the area and my killing the odd mouse will not make a scrap of difference. I can't bear to kill creepy crawlies, I would have nightmares if I killed a mouse! :)
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They are closing Euro Disney because of mice...
They found a 6 foot mouse in the kitchen
Sorry only taking the Mickey :nowink:
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:lol: :lol: :lol:
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I will have to check around the area of the sighting as there are a couple of cut off pieces of plastic pipes which might make a nice nesting site :ohmy:
The spade technique is not for me but if I can catch them I might relocate them to the local woods.
Thanks for the video link! If they wasn't so cute it would give me nightmares. ;)
One or two might look cute but the little beggars breed. I used to think they were cute until I had a family move into my kitchen store cupboard 9 years ago. Have spade will wallop. Now I keep multi traps outside the house and in the garage and utility.
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I think mice ate every single one of the peas I sowed this year. But recently, I have a seen a weasel both in my shed and in the pile of old stones in the corner of my plot so I'm hoping he will hang around come spring
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One or two might look cute but the little beggars breed. I used to think they were cute until I had a family move into my kitchen store cupboard 9 years ago. Have spade will wallop. Now I keep multi traps outside the house and in the garage and utility.
Yes I think I might feel differently about them if they were in or near to the house. The mouse looks to have moved on and a tidy up revealed no nest :) So hopefully I can move on and concentrate on worrying about how the greenhouse is going to fare in the predicated hurricane :dry:
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I lifted my carrots today half of them I pulled up rather easily because the entire root had been gobbled up...... The tunnels under my grass are to such an extent that when walking I feel like the earth is going to collapse beneath me! Sweet corn was stripped bare.
Though they haven't touched my autumn sown broadbeans (yet)
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I spotted one last winter while chopping some wood in a steading. Eventhough I was making a lot of noise, he just scurried around behind me. I left him be as he wasn't doing me any harm. I have seen many tunnels while I'm digging but haven't noticed much damage to crops at all. It was probably him who ate my pea seedlings in 2012 but I took precautions this year and they were fine with some mouse/pigeon barriers. Guess they could multiply rapidly and cause problems in the future but I'll deal with them if that happens.
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It's the time of year when the little beasts are out fattening up for winter.
I keep a big, flat headed shovel handy and....