when are you sowing your garden this year?

[buffalobo]

Ha! What the hell??

A burrow with 2 broken legs and a machete.

[Irving]

The machete comes later for that grape vine that is trying to grow back.

[hunterhawk]

My garden was doing great until all my tomatoes started getting eaten and i found holes being dug under my garden! I thought for sure it was rabbits as I would see a few rabbits in the yard daily but had never seen them touch my garden. Stopped seeing rabbits and still had stuff missing... I put out some corn and some half eaten tomatoes away from the garden under the bird feeder and watched as several rats came out to eat the corn and tomatoes! So now i waged war on Rats! I was wondering why i wasn't catching anything in my snares and it was because I had them set for rabbits! i went and bought several rat traps and just caught my first rat about a half hour ago! hoping to have 1 or 2 more by morning! will have to pull some of the traps in the morning so the squirrels don't get in them!

I hate Rats! anyone else seeing an increase in vermin this year?

[Irving]

I saw a mouse in my backyard a few weeks ago. Please post a picture of your rats.

[hunterhawk]

You asked for it! I hate these things! Only got one last night.. A little discouraged!!

[hollohas]

I have had mice climbing my tomato plants and eating the fruit. Haven't seen any, but they've left "evidence" behind...

[rbeau30]

I have had mice climbing my tomato plants and eating the fruit. Haven't seen any, but they've left "evidence" behind...

Ohh that sucks. And the ones exposed to rodent saliva are inedible :-(

Bucket trap. Make sure you have enough water in the bucket just in case the bodies start stacking.

[hunterhawk]

I used that bucket trap in my garage and didn't catch anything! I put out mouse traps and caught 28! Gotta love this field across the road and a bag of birdseed in the garage! I quickly bought a metal bin and don't have problem with mice!

hollohas that same thing happened with me and it was rats! You might want to set some traps! They were eating my heirlooms and my cherry tomatoes! I baited with beaut butter and bread on some and tomatoes on the others and the only one that caught was the one with peanut butter and bread!

did I mention I hate rats?

[HoneyBadger]

Well, I replanted a bunch of stuff, and I'm giving some of the other stuff a chance to recover for about a week before I replant. Seems like I killed all the green caterpillars, but now something else is eating holes in some of the leaves.

[Irving]

The machete comes later for that grape vine that is trying to grow back.

Looks like the grapes were doing a bit more than just trying to grow back. Found these tonight when I was cutting them down for a second time.