[Dopey113]

Mice got my peas (fair enough, they deserve them if im that stupid) so I want to be more cunning, when I start them again will covering them with toilet roll holders stop[ them this time? if not what else can I use?

[Totty]

Um, mouse traps?

Totty

[Dopey113]

There useless like cats 

[gavinjconway]

Simples - I put a spoonful of turpentine substitute or paraffin in with the dry seed in a small plastic bag then mix it all up so the peas get a coating on the paraffin. The "Miiiiices" will not smell them out to steal them..

[Yorkie]

Simples - I put a spoonful of turpentine substitute or paraffin in with the dry seed in a small plastic bag then mix it all up so the peas get a coating on the paraffin. The "Miiiiices" will not smell them out to steal them..

Good luck ... there have been many others on here who have not had success from the paraffin method ... 

[barley]

started mine in pots this year

germinated lovely , planted out about 3 cm high by the morning all gone 

I will now get mine from Iceland's freezer cabinet

[madcat]

Mine are in pots and wont go out until the pea has shriveled up and the plants are established. 

PS Cats are useless in the battle!

[New shoot]

I agree with Madcat.  Mice will dig up and eat peas and beans if there is any of the original seed left on the roots and the whole plant generally disappears.  I think they take the top growth off to their burrows as well to have as a side salad 

[Ma Lowe]

  oh no I hope my peas will be ok. I have 3 x 24ft rows of peas approx 70 per row all are just popping their heads through the soil now. I netted them yesterday but am now worried that mice will get them. Well if they do the  ground will be used for some other veg instead. Keeping my Fingers crossed

[gavinjconway]

started mine in pots this year

germinated lovely , planted out about 3 cm high by the morning all gone 

I will now get mine from Iceland's freezer cabinet

Pigeons get up earlier than you and they love their greens...   I doubt mice would totally eat a whole row of small pea plants - old seed and the greens..

[pigguns]

I do guttering and then plant out and don't have seed problems any more, but the * bean weavils have decimated the plot ones, although the garden ones are doing lovely.  Not putting peas in the plot no more.

[DD.]

I've done peas my usual way and they're fine.

Can't faff about with guttering when you've over 200' of peas!

[Lesleyk]

Mine are in pots and wont go out until the pea has shriveled up and the plants are established. 

PS Cats are useless in the battle!

Same here.  This year I lost two sowings, even though they were in pots, cos the mice have discovered the greenhouse and my cats have been useless too!  Third sowing, also in the greenhouse, seems to be OK, especially since I built extra frames covered with glass, and no way in at all, inside the GH.  It looks like Fort Knox in there.  The mice seem to have moved away from the greenhouse in the last couple of weeks, probably cos there is more food available outdoors now, so I am waiting until the peas are looking well established before planting them in the garden. 

[Spr0ut]

Sowed an experimental row of peas and netted them to see if I could do away with sowing in pots next time - not one pea has appeared yet and they've been in four weeks. Back to the pots!

[barley]

started mine in pots this year

germinated lovely , planted out about 3 cm high by the morning all gone 

I will now get mine from Iceland's freezer cabinet

Pigeons get up earlier than you and they love their greens...   I doubt mice would totally eat a whole row of small pea plants - old seed and the greens..

nope netted over and framed - definitely mice's if not voles , I have banks peppered with vole holes round my garden , you can hear them squeaking as you walk past and to add insult to injury a pesky meece has devoured my sweet corn in the green house - oh well dum de dum