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Advice Please.

TheveggardenerTheveggardener Posts: 1,057
in Problem solving
Decided to try and turn the compost heap just now, in doing so I found either a rat or mouse nest not sure which. How can I deter them from nesting in the compost heap? I'ts one of those tallish plastic type bins and sits on soil. I never add cooked food, meat or dairy to it.

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  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Keep turning it and keep it damp. 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • PosyPosy Posts: 3,601
    Disturbing it is about the only way, I'm afraid.
  • TheveggardenerTheveggardener Posts: 1,057
    Thanks Dovefromabove and Posy, I thought that might be the case. I've got one of those four pronged things you twist that I can use to to do it with. I'll just have to do it every day till the know their not welcome. Thanks again both.
  • BobTheGardenerBobTheGardener Posts: 11,385
    Also give it a knock every time you walk past - any kind of disturbance will help move them on.
    A trowel in the hand is worth a thousand lost under a bush.
  • TheveggardenerTheveggardener Posts: 1,057
    Thanks, BobTheGardener will do. Think they might have also been in my Blueberry posts as they all have been dug about in and it can't be birds as all fruit is under netting. Thanks again.
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