Also what kind of bug an pest sprays should I start using, I would like to go organic and non toxic if at all possible..
2007-03-09 10:12:43 · 8 answers · asked by Julie 4 in Home & Garden ➔ Garden & Landscape
Put moth balls all over out there around the perimeter of your garden and at the bottoms of the trees. They'll get rid of your rat problems and keep the plants from being harmed.
2007-03-09 11:22:51 · answer #1 · answered by GenevievesMom 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Rat and Mice Control
1. Last resort: Slice up corks, mix with food grease (bacon grease, hamburger grease etc.) then scent this mixture with oil of anise. Put out for the rodents, they love to eat it, but cannot digest it and die.
2. Scatter fresh or dried mint or holly leaves as a repellent.
3. Protect the bases of trees by wrapping loosely with 1/4" hardware cloth or foil. Be sure to keep any mulch pulled away from the trunks.
3. Get cats!
4. Don't mulch any perennials until after a few frosts. The rodents will have found a home by then and not in your mulch!
5. Encourage snakes and owls to stay near the garden to provide natural control.
6. Trap baits: nut meats, dried fruits, or bacon.
7. Plant "barriers" of perennial sweet peas (Lathyrus latifolius). You will enjoy the beauty of these plants for many years to come too.
8. Spray Ropel on the plants.
9. Keep the soil around plants bare so there's no hiding place.
10. Daffodils (Narcissus spp.), wood hyacinth (Scilla or squill) and grape hyacinth (Muscari) are said to repel rodents. Plant a pretty spring blooming border of them to help protect your other plants year round.
11. Planting herbs with a powerful scent .. Best choices are alliums, camphor plant, dwarf elder, elderberry, ,euphorbias, any mints and wormwood.
12. If you are allergic to or cannot tolerate cats then there are certain dogs which will take care of rodents for you. Certain terriers are well known as "ratters" and so are Italian greyhounds.
2007-03-09 19:27:28 · answer #2 · answered by Kacky 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Of course they will enjoy your wonderful veggie garden once the veggies starts in, they also eat some flowers too.
You really need to get rid of the rats before it becomes a major problem though, before you know it, they be moving into your house and eating off of your counter tops.
2007-03-10 23:03:35 · answer #3 · answered by ? 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Only treat the problem and don't spray anymore than you have to. Only buy organic pesticides or you will be killing yourself. Get rid of those rats, set traps and poisons if nothing else can get at it.
2007-03-09 18:27:26 · answer #4 · answered by kimballama 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Rats in the trees? I have never heard of this. Where do you live? I would say you might need an exterminator. If you have so many you can see them, you need a great deal of help.
2007-03-09 19:42:49 · answer #5 · answered by Ceci 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Are they fruitrats, I ha ve them here in Florida. I am going to have to strip all the fruit off the trees to get rid of them. Yes, they will eat your veggies and your cat if he sleeps outside.
2007-03-09 18:21:25 · answer #6 · answered by beachloveric 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
buy chicken wire and put a fencing of it around it but not to high or else u cant get into your gardenor set traps
2007-03-09 18:56:44 · answer #7 · answered by tkddragon11 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
rats? good god you need rat poison to kill the nasty creatures and yes they will eat all the veggies...
2007-03-09 18:16:59 · answer #8 · answered by HEAR TO HELP 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋