Strawberry wars

I have slug pelleted, I have netted, to date on my new strawberry bed Rosiecider 1 strawberry some pesky critter 5 strawberries, this is not gardening it's pest controlling ..... me thinks I may have a mouse and I am too big a softie for traps.

Just cannot take much more !! pigeons, slugs, cats, caterpillars now mice... AArgh .... 

pigeons seam to be my neighbours enemy however I didn't cut my strawberrys back last year and appear to be getting good results with them hidden under the top cover.

I am still loosing some though and I think youd could be right it could be Mice. My runners never came up from seeds sown directly into the sow this year.

I suppose the old garlic spray isn't applicable to strawberry's is it. Wed get garlic strawberry's?

I had some human traps at home to catch some mice who I was happy to have living with me till they started eating everything. I caught on but didn't get back to house for a day or so. Keep it out to the 'set free' area and out plopped a suffocated mouse. I was in morning for months.

Quote from: rosiecider on June 29, 2015, 15:09

I have slug pelleted, I have netted, to date on my new strawberry bed Rosiecider 1 strawberry some pesky critter 5 strawberries, this is not gardening it's pest controlling ..... me thinks I may have a mouse and I am too big a softie for traps.

Just cannot take much more !! pigeons, slugs, cats, caterpillars now mice... AArgh .... 

pigeons seam to be my neighbours enemy however I didn't cut my strawberrys back last year and appear to be getting good results with them hidden under the top cover.

I am still loosing some though and I think youd could be right it could be Mice. My runners never came up from seeds sown directly into the sow this year.

I suppose the old garlic spray isn't applicable to strawberry's is it. Wed get garlic strawberry's?

I had some human traps at home to catch some mice who I was happy to have living with me till they started eating everything. I caught on but didn't get back to house for a day or so. Keep it out to the 'set free' area and out plopped a suffocated mouse. I was in morning for months.

Mice had my dwarf french beans too started off in the green house nurtured for nearly 4 weeks before I realised there were no beans in the compost any more, garlic strawberries think I will pass on that, another strawberry gone this morning little * must be checking every night !! think I will get a cat garden ornament