Mice eating my seeds
jellytotspalmer
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Hi
please could anyone help me
my Husband and I have a greenhouse at the end of our garden backing onto a schools open field.
We have sown peas, sunflower, pumpkin, marrow, runner and French beans, sweetcorn courgette seeds. feeling very productive imagine my horror when the following day I have returned to my greenhouse and found the whole lot gone. Eaten, munched, the little swines have even shelled the peas and left them sitting on top of the soil
i understand Mice are to blame I really don't want to put poison down as we back onto a school field it is their natural habitat. One of my allotmenteers suggested soaking the seeds in parrifin but this sounds odd to me.
We have tried to re-sow and cover with a proporgator lid but the pests still get in
any suggestions would be helpful
Thank you
Michelle and Jim Palmer
xxx
Last edited: 14 June 2016 07:08:52
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Failing getting a cat, you could try spiky twigs of holly or berberis laid around the seeds.
i have harvest mice that use my bird feeders everyday what if you provide them with some bird seed outside the greenhouse away from it a bit, maybe in a low down feeder, this may encourage them to use that instead of searching out food in your greenhouse?
I use old hamster cages, to propagate my peas in (modules fit just nicely into the base)
HaHa brilliant lateral thinking. Don't cage them in cage them out!!! Genius.
Haven't you something more important you could be doing treehugger?
Last edited: 14 June 2016 09:20:00
Peppermint essential oil soaked on cotton wool balls as per
If so, of all home remedies for mice Peppermint oil is my best way to get rid of mice. Rodents do not like the smell (I LOVE it), which is far too strong for them, so they keep their distance. The smell of peppermint also helps to mask food odors that attract mice.
I do PP, I have an allotment gardening session this afternoon, then home for three hours of wedding prep!
stressful times more like!!