Normally, I don't mind having a few animal pests around...it's the country, after all, so you expect it BUT when it comes to garden decimation, I draw the line! So we set out two traps in the pea bed and baited them with peanut butter (a rat favorite Jack was assured by the folks at the Grange) and overnight we got quite the result! These are about 7' rats (not including the tail) and very fat thanks to a diet of pea and spinach plants and stuff from the mulch bin.
I realize now that most of our problems last garden season were thanks to the rats. WHO KNEW?And that I was part of the problem by not securing the perimeter of the mulch bin so they had easy access underneath. So we'll keep trapping, expecting to get a few more this way. We'll put out the sign for them: "Bring your friends and relatives!"
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