On Thu, 02 Apr 2015 12:29:41 +0200, Martin wrote:

%^&*ing mice

Preach it, brother!



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Gardening in Lower Normandy

On 02/04/2015 12:22, Emery Davis wrote:
On Thu, 02 Apr 2015 12:29:41 +0200, Martin wrote:

%^&*ing mice

Preach it, brother!

If you think mice are bad try squirrels. They dislodged tiles off my
garage roof and made a hole in the roofing felt to get to stored apples.

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Regards,
Martin Brown

On 02/04/2015 14:44, Martin Brown wrote:
On 02/04/2015 12:22, Emery Davis wrote:
On Thu, 02 Apr 2015 12:29:41 +0200, Martin wrote:

%^&*ing mice

Preach it, brother!

If you think mice are bad try squirrels. They dislodged tiles off my
garage roof and made a hole in the roofing felt to get to stored apples.



And squirrels got into our loft and ate through cables. We're lucky
there wasn't a fire.
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Spider.
On high ground in SE London
gardening on heavy clay

On 03/04/2015 12:21, Martin wrote:
On Fri, 03 Apr 2015 12:18:59 +0100, Spider wrote:

On 02/04/2015 14:44, Martin Brown wrote:
On 02/04/2015 12:22, Emery Davis wrote:
On Thu, 02 Apr 2015 12:29:41 +0200, Martin wrote:

%^&*ing mice

Preach it, brother!

If you think mice are bad try squirrels. They dislodged tiles off my
garage roof and made a hole in the roofing felt to get to stored apples.



And squirrels got into our loft and ate through cables. We're lucky
there wasn't a fire.

and no grilled squirrel?



Well, there certainly wasn't the delicious odour one might associate
with roast rodent. Mind you, RG got fairly hot under the colour when he
had to rerun cables in the rather tight eaves of the loft.
Hopefully, all the access holes have been blocked now and, no, we
haven't blocked Squirrel in. RG taped his mobile phone to a length of
timber and used the camera to check for lodgers.
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Spider.
On high ground in SE London
gardening on heavy clay

We had a Rat problem so put down poison. We also blocked up the holes. Problem? We blocked up his exit. He died and rotted under the lounge floor.

Mike

On 03/04/2015 17:36, mike crowe wrote:
'Spider[_3_ Wrote:
;1012677']On 03/04/2015 12:21, Martin wrote:-
On Fri, 03 Apr 2015 12:18:59 +0100, Spider wrote:
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On 02/04/2015 14:44, Martin Brown wrote:-
On 02/04/2015 12:22, Emery Davis wrote:
On Thu, 02 Apr 2015 12:29:41 +0200, Martin wrote:

%^&*ing mice

Preach it, brother!

If you think mice are bad try squirrels. They dislodged tiles off my
garage roof and made a hole in the roofing felt to get to stored
apples.
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And squirrels got into our loft and ate through cables. We're lucky
there wasn't a fire.-

and no grilled squirrel?
-


Well, there certainly wasn't the delicious odour one might associate
with roast rodent. Mind you, RG got fairly hot under the colour when he

had to rerun cables in the rather tight eaves of the loft.
Hopefully, all the access holes have been blocked now and, no, we
haven't blocked Squirrel in. RG taped his mobile phone to a length of
timber and used the camera to check for lodgers.
--
Spider.
On high ground in SE London
gardening on heavy clay


We had a Rat problem so put down poison. We also blocked up the holes.
Problem? We blocked up his exit. He died and rotted under the lounge
floor.

Mike




We get bothered by squirrels, grey ones mostly, and the try to get at
all the bulbs I planted each year, and eat them. I have had to resort to
putting wire netting over every pot or tub which has bulbs in. At least
they don't get eaten, but the little b*\.s have a go at digging up some
of the plants I have potted, just to see if they are worth eating????

On 02/04/2015 12:47, Martin wrote:
On 2 Apr 2015 11:22:48 GMT, Emery Davis wrote:

On Thu, 02 Apr 2015 12:29:41 +0200, Martin wrote:

%^&*ing mice

Preach it, brother!

She is thinking of planting a few peanuts around each bean next year to turn the
mouse into an overweight obese has bean mouse with a peanut allergy.



In years gone by we would soak pea and bean seed overnight in paraffin
this would put the little darlings off and didn't hurt the seed

On Thu, 02 Apr 2015 13:35:01 +0100, David Hill wrote:

In years gone by we would soak pea and bean seed overnight in paraffin
this would put the little darlings off and didn't hurt the seed

David what's your strategy with Dahlia tubers?



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Gardening in Lower Normandy

On 02/04/2015 14:22, Emery Davis wrote:
On Thu, 02 Apr 2015 13:35:01 +0100, David Hill wrote:

In years gone by we would soak pea and bean seed overnight in paraffin
this would put the little darlings off and didn't hurt the seed

David what's your strategy with Dahlia tubers?


In what respect?

On Thu, 02 Apr 2015 15:47:24 +0100, David Hill wrote:

David what's your strategy with Dahlia tubers?


In what respect?

Presumably you dig them up for overwintering? I had a mouse problem with
tubers (when we did dahlias), the mice ate them.



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Gardening in Lower Normandy

On 02/04/2015 16:05, Emery Davis wrote:
On Thu, 02 Apr 2015 15:47:24 +0100, David Hill wrote:

David what's your strategy with Dahlia tubers?


In what respect?

Presumably you dig them up for overwintering? I had a mouse problem with
tubers (when we did dahlias), the mice ate them.


Never had any tubers eaten or even nibbled,just slugs going for the
young shoots.
Now pot grown crocus are another story.

Blinking mice

Early symptoms of "Three blind mice" perhaps :-)

Mike