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Indiana

How do I keep the little boogers away. They chewed on my 1060.5 and today I noticed that there were seeds laying all around my 490 fruit.

9/27/2004 10:08:06 AM

Ljubljana, Slovenia

This sux... take no hostiges even though they are mammals!

9/27/2004 10:27:36 AM

No Place Special

I know how you feel tom!

9/27/2004 10:57:01 AM

Oz

NUTS AND "HAVOC" POISON.
CAYENNE PEPPER ALSO

9/27/2004 11:03:12 AM

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Copper Hardware cloth under sand. Pulp mill fabric under fruit. Mice won't chew through copper but pumpkins probably wont appreciate having their butts abraided.

Bait the patch with weather resistant stations kept constantly filled with Contact, Talon Weatherblock, Quintox or comparable Pro Rodent Bait.

If you can get it, ZP (zinc phosphite) Tracking Powder on meal is the very best. But be careful with it. It must stay dry to work.

9/27/2004 11:07:11 AM

Colorado Hail, CO. Elev. 5,900 FT

burn 'em.... heh heh...uh...heh heh..... fire is cool.... heh heh....uh....heh heh...FIRE... FIRE!!!

9/27/2004 12:05:36 PM

Commack, NY

i let my culls rot in the patch.....this way they dont work over my good fruit.

9/27/2004 1:24:49 PM

Itzetown City

If I would have a 1060,5, I would watch beside em all night long.
How about shutgun or bow hunting? But be sure you miss the pumpkin.

9/27/2004 2:17:35 PM

Indiana

LOL

I got it on Paper mill fabric. I am thinking sand around the base next year they are running in under the fruit at ribs. I suspect this one makes the 1060.5 look little..........

Tom

9/27/2004 2:46:46 PM

Western Pa.

Start your rodent control early in the Spring. I bait my outbuildings in Spring and Fall, and keep Rodex in the patch all season. I have rats and mice, they just never make it to the pumpkins!

9/27/2004 3:02:10 PM

Right on Kilr. You gotta trap them all summer long. That takes away the adults that make the babies that chew on your pumpkins come fall. Although for you Tom, trapping might be a little inappropriate for such a big patch. And since you're a little chemical crazy, you might want to go with the poison. :-)

9/27/2004 5:19:02 PM

oh yeah, and I hope they didn't get that pretty 490!

9/27/2004 5:19:47 PM

That State Up North

Berrett M82A

9/27/2004 5:34:57 PM

Long Island,New York

I have 16 mouse snap-traps and two live catch mousetraps around my pkn....two ex-large glue traps and 12 cubes of rat poison........

9/27/2004 6:01:24 PM

Ri

hey tom i have had problems in previous years with chipmunks found that a little bleach solution left over after the wipe down does wonders to discourage their taste for gourd flesh good luck peter

9/27/2004 6:29:23 PM

Rhode Island

Trap the little SOB's....The plastic ones are the best!!!!
A Little peanut butter an a kernal of corn on top...Gets them everytime..I like to see them dead in the trap, Poison works good but I like to see em DEAD!

9/27/2004 8:00:41 PM

Sequim, WA

A little coyote urine sprinkled around the fruit should do the trick. Getting the coyote to pee in the bottle may turn out to be the difficult part.

9/27/2004 8:06:23 PM

Colo.Spgs.CO. Pikes Peak Chapter @ [email protected]

Tom, I have gone through ten packages of mouse bait blocks in the last month. They eat this stuff like crazy and are dying all over the place. You have to keep this stuff in a dry cool shaded areas where the mice like to run, and also in the tool sheds and garages and any other buildings also where the mice may be stock piling your seeds. I get the sutff at walmart, and it comes in a couple of different varieties...the green blocks, and also in a tan colored block which looks like seeds pressed together that have been poisoned. I mix the two different ones up and place them in every concievable place a mouse may visit. This method works well, as the only place I notice a mouse is by the bait blocks having disapeared, so I just keep feeding them more and more untill they are eradicated.....

9/27/2004 8:32:36 PM

get a tribe of mean ol ornery tom cats

9/27/2004 8:33:06 PM

Mastic Beach, New York

I have about 4 wild cats that patrol the yard/patch and they leave me at least 1 dead field mice a week some times 2 0r 3 in a weeks time..

9/27/2004 9:25:43 PM

canal winchester ohio

hang the dead mice on little crosses all around your pumpkins........LOL

9/27/2004 9:32:58 PM

Rhode Island

tom
dig a moat 4 ft wide and 4 ft deep around your patch then import a dozen piranas for the summer

if this fails we have had good luck sprinkling moth balls around the fruit early on

dick

9/28/2004 8:27:18 AM

Deer Park, WI

Remember the snakes homie? Your idea in the first place!!! Still got mine around the fruit, thinkin they might be scarin the suckas away.

9/28/2004 8:49:32 AM

Jeez, don't tell him to build a moat with piranhas, he might actually do it!

9/28/2004 10:55:59 AM

Woodburn, Indiana

cats

9/28/2004 11:06:48 AM

Menomonie, WI ([email protected])

Dick if he digs the 4 foot moat. He will still have an island of happy little mice. Fat and Furry from eating all those pumpkins. Joe no mouse is afraid of a rubber snake..for very long The have a sense of smell unlike them pesky sparrows.

9/28/2004 11:25:19 AM

I got an idea. Just fence off the pumpkin with miniature barbed wire, put miniature land bombs all around the fencing and that should keep the bugers out or just invest in a cat. I got strays around mine and I haven't seen one in the area.

9/28/2004 1:51:04 PM

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If this thread wasn't so funny, it would be shameful.

9/28/2004 1:55:10 PM

Once you catch them Tom, you have to fling them on top of the pumpkin shack to feed the hawks. Right Joe?

9/28/2004 3:14:25 PM

wisconsin rapids WI

With the floods Tom gets he don't need a moat His pacth is always under watter most of the time

9/28/2004 5:07:35 PM

Rhode Island

how about spinning hula hoops around each pumpkin
or
pave the patch and leave holes for the tap roots
or
play some rap music, that should do it ( unless they are city rats )

9/28/2004 6:21:16 PM

Itzetown City

Tom give the mice all the tons of seeds that you store in your bedroom. Im sure theyll never come back. But dont forget send me the half before.

9/28/2004 7:11:17 PM