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Produce => Pests & Diseases => Topic started by: I love digging on September 20, 2010, 18:07:45

Title: The mice are at my sweetcorn!
Post by: I love digging on September 20, 2010, 18:07:45
Any suggestions for stopping them?
Title: Re: The mice are at my sweetcorn!
Post by: goodlife on September 20, 2010, 18:13:59
..perhaps they would like some birdseed better that is scattered nearby..? ;)
Other than that..fence the area off and chuck a cat and/or terrier in..that should sort the mice and the sweetcorn out.. ::)
..sorry...there is not much you can do other than provide something else..
Title: Re: The mice are at my sweetcorn!
Post by: Robert_Brenchley on September 20, 2010, 18:37:59
Poison or traps.
Title: Re: The mice are at my sweetcorn!
Post by: lillian on October 07, 2010, 17:41:34
Had the same problem with sunflowers. I don't bother growing them anymore. :(
Title: Re: The mice are at my sweetcorn!
Post by: Vinlander on October 08, 2010, 00:57:23
Develop a taste for sweetcorn that isn't ridiculously sweet - grow the old-fashioned kind that don't taste like a sugar cube.

Pick them when they have flavour and before they become sugar - mice are like kids - they have "no taste" for the finer things in life.

Cheers.