What did you do in your garden today?

[Hinotori]

Paint the tubs of water black and they will absorb more heat if the light hits them. It's passive solar heating.

 

[LaurenRitz]

Any suggestions for plants that will survive in a greenhouse that mice won't eat? My original greenhouse at this location is a smorgasbord for them. Rosemary has survived. Everything else has been eaten down to the ground.

Zone 6b

 

[flowerbug]

onion family plants? mints? oregano?


but pretty much if it freezes you may not get much actual production until it gets warmer and there is more light.

 

[LaurenRitz]

onion family plants? mints? oregano?


but pretty much if it freezes you may not get much actual production until it gets warmer and there is more light.

I'm not necessarily concerned about production at this point. The stupid mice even ate potatoes to the ground, but they haven't touched the rosemary. I know mice will eat onions, and they ate my seedling apples. I have seeds for oregano and thyme, various types of mint. It may be a matter of having plants that grow faster than the rodents can eat them.

This didn't start until after the first frost, so I assume their normal food sources became scarse.

 

[Mini Horses]

Don't grow anything & maybe they'll go elsewhere

 

[LaurenRitz]

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Don't grow anything & maybe they'll go elsewhere

I'm allergic to wasted planting space. Even the winter killed garden drives me nuts. Deliberately not growing in a greenhouse? I'd likely need an emergency room visit.

 

[R2elk]

I have no mice in my greenhouse but if I did, I would poison them.

 

[Hinotori]

I haven't actually found anything that rodents dont eat.

They did avoid the menthol crystals I disolved in olive oil. Maybe a couple took a lick and died later so the rest knew to avoid it. Doesn't take much menthol to kill. I labeled the bag of crystals as poison just so hubby wouldn't think they would be neat to taste. People do that and end up in the hospital.

They eat mint stuff.

If you don't want to put down poison there are a few options.

Put out some MouseX. It's not toxic. The corn gluten meal in it is the active ingredient. RatX and MouseX are safe for birds, dogs, and cats if ingested.

Can also mix up baking soda with peanut butter. It takes several feedings and is kind of nasty death for rodents as they can't burp up the CO2 from the baking soda so they bloat until they die.

 

[LaurenRitz]

Can also mix up baking soda with peanut butter. It takes several feedings and is kind of nasty death for rodents as they can't burp up the CO2 from the baking soda so they bloat until they die.

I have containers of baking soda mixed with sugar all over the place. That cleaned out the barn in short order.

The problem is with the humidity. Within a few days it absorbs moisture and hardens, and they stop eating it.

I also think it's different mice. One stumbles away to die, another takes the vacated territory. And a greenhouse is prime territory during the winter.

 

[farmerjan]

Good old fashioned mouse traps....