Keep Rats and Squirrels Out of Your Tomato Garden

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  @FermeAngelina · 5 years ago (edited)

  Video starts at <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VG1sFbPSeWo&amp;t=381">6:21</a> for rats and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VG1sFbPSeWo&amp;t=558">9:18</a> for squirrels

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  @justinbukoski1 · 6 years ago

  My dogs tend to tear up my garden so I normally keep them out. Last year I found a huge tunnel system under my tomato plants. Made the dogs sleep outside with the garden gate open. Next morning I find the biggest rat (dead) I&apos;ve ever seen in my life sitting right outside the backdoor and a couple of dogs looking at me with some serious prideful looks. They got steak that night for dinner. They tore up a few kale plants but it was good trade.

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  @salysellsss · 5 years ago (edited)

  The Rat Zappers have worked amazingly well for us, far more effective than any other method. &nbsp;We put Honey Nut Cheerios in them and the mice can’t resist it! &nbsp;Caught over 14 mice within a week in our garage.

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  @lisagarrett9999 · 5 years ago

  GOD BLESS YOU !! ANYONE SAYING ANYTHING NEGATIVE TO YOU HAS NEVER HAD A RAT PROBLEM !!

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  @AtlantaTerry · 6 years ago (edited)

  Birds and tomatoes.<br>Save (or buy) red Christmas ornaments. Dollar Tree bargain stores have them before Christmas and thrift stores such as Goodwill have them after the holidays.<br> <br>Then in the spring just as your tomato plants are about to start putting out fruit, hang your shiny red Christmas ornaments among the plants. The birds will think they have struck gold but when they peck, they won&apos;t get juice, just a beak full of ... nothing. Once they learn that there is no reward for their efforts, they will leave your real tomato fruit alone for the rest of the season.

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  @kb1236 · 6 years ago

  I started feeding two cats on my front porch, a stray and a feral thinking they would keep mice away from my house and garden. &nbsp;My husband recently took a picture of them both sitting in the back yard beside my garden with a baby mouse sitting between them. &nbsp;They look to be baby sitting the baby mouse.

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  @rootedinjoy8821 · 5 years ago

  One year I had a seven layer pest control system that culminated in yes....my son being assigned the job to sleep outside occasionally with his friends and his air soft guns. &nbsp;The squirrels still got to them...but we had fun watching the boys be diligently on guard!

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  @Leonardorodriguez-w6w · 5 years ago

  Everyone is so sensitive now a days, it’s okay to get rid of rodents that are in your garden!!<br>I love this video, subscribing for sure!😄

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  @theducklinghomesteadandgarden1 · 6 years ago

  Of all of the small rodent traps I have used, similar to the old style mouse traps, IS the black trap you showed!!! It is absolutely the best!!!! Really easy to use, easy to set without risk to your own fingers, and the &quot;jaw&quot; has &quot;teeth&quot; so not only does it catch the rodent but it hangs on to it if it doesn&apos;t instantly kill it, which it does 99% of the time, but should it not be instant it will hold on to until it dies, you find it to kill it, or you release it into a dumpster or feed it to your cat or dog!!!!! <br>Oh and the sticky glue traps work really good, but the mouse starves to death or stresses out and then dies., but you can catch multiple and then I throw them in a bag to suffocate them and throw them in a dumpster. <br>I like the bucket method as well, and I simply throw the deceased mice/rats in the dumpster!<br><br>Mice and Rats especially and to an extent squirrels but not as bad, carry a multitude of diseases which they can pass on to you via their urine and/or feces. People don&apos;t realize if they are present, you can step on a urine patch or feces, but the hidden risk comes from the mice walking in their urine and feces, which they do constantly and then they track that contamination over every surface they walk on. <br>So, you could place an apple and/or your hands on a counter that looks clean, but they walked across, so now your food is contaminated and so are your hands. If you put a finger in your mouth to lick something off, or you rub your eye with that contaminated finger...if that mouse was carrying any or all of those diseases you will be a very sick person and could potentially die!!! They can also cause damage to electrical wiring in one&apos;s home which could cause a fire which could cause loss of property but even worse could cause death as well!!<br><br>So, IT IS VERY IMPORTANT TO GET RID OF RODENTS IN YOUR HOME AND/OR AROUND YOUR FOOD SOURCES, YOUR LIFE DEPENDS ON IT!!!! AND MOVING THEM INSTEAD OF KILLING THEM PUTS OTHER PEOPLE AND/OR ANIMALS IN DANGER!!!

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  @wendyaleman4712 · 6 years ago

  Totally agree with, your never gonna please everyone, I do take your tips😊🙏

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  @brendalucas15 · 5 years ago

  I&apos;m with you. If it&apos;s in my veg garden, it&apos;s fair game!!

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  @shiakaaustin2302 · 4 years ago

  Thank you. Some people seem to care more about rats and rodents than other humans...if the &nbsp;rat has to go it has to go.

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