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Partlow,Va

What does everyone use to keep the mice from under your kins?

They are a big problem for me as almost every large one that I have grown has either an old nest or a live nest under them between the mill fabric and the kin. I am thinking of placing large bait stations around the patch. It would be nice to find a natural odor that they are scared of but haven't yet. I have heard castor beans will work?

4/1/2016 10:23:17 AM

Eastern Pennsylvania

Out cats obliterate the rodent population. Mainly its voles that I find on the walkway, with various levels of mulilation. They get creative with their work.

4/1/2016 11:57:45 AM

aurora, IL

Use plywood or clement board with mill fabric/sheet on top.

4/1/2016 12:27:26 PM

Menomonie, WI (mail@gr8pumpkin.net)

Dry vent tube crushed on the ends with rat poison in it.

4/1/2016 1:44:17 PM

aurora, IL

Get a barn owl!

4/1/2016 1:47:00 PM

Colorado

mouse traps with peanut butter and decon

4/1/2016 2:16:17 PM

mean cat tried to pet once wont try that soon

4/1/2016 2:19:50 PM

Ontario

lol !

4/1/2016 5:00:20 PM

Whitehall Montana

Sticky glue traps work great,just dont put yer hand on it

4/1/2016 5:37:24 PM

NE Arkansas

Lol @ slim

4/2/2016 12:13:55 AM

Central Illinois

Ive already started setting traps to thin out the breeders

4/2/2016 9:25:33 AM

Central Illinois

A corn seed supplier told me they spray a chemical that keeps the mice away from the bags of corn, He didn't say what it was and Ive never found any.

4/2/2016 9:27:34 AM

New Berlin, PA

Last year was my first year, but I know we have mice and voles around. I used a granular rodent repellent around the patch perimeter. Traps and moth balls inside around the pumpkins. Also we have an outside cat, but he can't get into the patch itself. No poison on account of the cat and neighbors dogs.

4/4/2016 10:09:23 AM

Partlow,Va

Thanks all. I put my old recliner in the shed last year for the cat so that was a mistake but the cat isnt mean anymore but hungry all the time. My owl is plastic so it hasn't killed a thing and when I came home yesterday there were crows on both sides of it. I haven't used poison because I thought it would/ could bring them in near the kins but they come anyway. so I think will keep a baitbox/stickys by each if Im lucky enough to get one on this year. Caught 3 mice (all on peanut butter under the flap cojoe!) in my GMC cab and one in the back last week which got me to thinking about the precious kins. I have tried moth balls, traps, fake snakes and sprayed almost straight bifen under my altoona kin last year with no luck.
Thanks yall

4/5/2016 10:47:30 PM

Central Illinois

you could try the homemade 5 gallon bucket trap ,drowns the little buggers, I may make one just worried about the smell.

4/6/2016 7:37:13 AM

Central Illinois

you could try the homemade 5 gallon bucket trap ,drowns the little buggers, I may make one just worried about the smell.

4/6/2016 7:45:21 AM

Waynesboro, Virginia

I feed the stray cats in my neighborhood.I don't think a mouse would come within a mile of my garden.I'm with Don, a feral mean one :)

4/6/2016 8:46:59 AM

Partlow,Va

WOTBRidge.. thanks for posting about the swan house in your diary. My daughter is a Bridgewater grad who lives in Timberville now so when we visit there is something new to explore!
Good idea baitman about the 5 gallon traps I need to make a couple before the season gets going.

4/6/2016 11:01:50 PM

Waynesboro, Virginia

Very welcome Hank.Bridgewater is a really nice place.My grandaughters relatives live there.

4/6/2016 11:13:37 PM

Paradise Mountain, New York

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSk79YcuIRQ&nohtml5=False

4/6/2016 11:38:35 PM

Central Illinois

Mad genius check 2:58 also


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4PaGvAhV9I&nohtml5=False

4/7/2016 7:44:10 AM

Circleville Ohio

I put about a four inch layer of sand under the mill cloth under the pumpkin mice can't tunnel through the sand it caves in on them.

3/20/2017 8:43:12 PM

Owensboro, Ky.

Why not just cut the bottom our of one bucket & then stack two? Longer approach ramps, yes...but I bet the lil mouse can't jump two five gallon buckets? Know what I mean? Peace, Wayne
PS...I have been wrong b/4?

3/21/2017 12:11:07 AM