While pests and pathogens hibernate, rats, mice and hares, due to the cold, cannot find food in the fields and in the forest, so their goal is to become a garden and a vegetable store with a harvest. Of course, you need to prepare to protect the garden from unwanted guests in the fall. And in the cold season, it is necessary to check the effectiveness of these methods and take new steps to protect your work.
We trample and redistribute snow to tidbits
In winter, for the garden, snow has a protective function. It protects bare soil from freezing and weathering, as well as plants from the cold. In addition, it is better to add snow so that in the spring it effectively moistens the soil.
To prevent rodents from climbing with bulbs and minks to bulbs, bushes, flower beds and trees, you need to trample the snow gently near the plants, without touching them.
We regularly check the shelter of plants
Hares love to feast on bark, so always check the trimming of tree trunks with fabrics, non-woven materials and branches. If you notice that the mounts are held unreliably, then immediately take action. Inspect plants that are covered by an air-dry method, leaves, straw and sawdust, because voles can create a nest in warmth and dryness. Make sure that hares and mice do not reach the branches and buds of trees and shrubs.
Take additional measures to wrap or set traps, if necessary. Stocks of dry branches or spruce branches should always be in your arsenal in order to renew, strengthen or create a new shelter. Check traps for mice, fill baits, update repellents.
In the cellars and places where seeds and vegetables are stored, carefully check the loss of cereals, nuts and seeds. If you notice bitten vegetables or a mouse smell, then it's time to take urgent measures.
We stock up on rodent repellents
If the basic measures for protection are not enough, then you will have to resort to chemical and environmental means. This can be tincture of elderberry or tar, ammonia, creolin, diesel fuel, special preparations that are mixed with grain and flour, or ready-made mixes for baits. Be sure to choose for yourself at least one tool to deal with uninvited guests.
Prepare a stock of rags, cotton pads or foam rubber and several means for soaking them. Distribute rags, cotton pads or containers with baits according to burrows and moves. Put the repellers near plants or in places where vegetables are stored, and the baits with poisons away from the crop and garden.
We use decor as a means of fighting rodents
Lapnik can be laid out on flower beds or tie it into bouquets and build huts. You can use rustling materials, for example, Christmas tinsel, at the same time and decorate the garden with bright colors. Also tie the tree trunks with red bandages, ribbons, colored fabric, soaked in repellers. So it turns out to scare away lovers feast on the bark. Tie spruce branches and lay them down along pipes, drains and other “channels” through which voles and rats can get into the house and storage.
But remember that no matter how you prepare in the fall to protect the garden and the crop from rodents when winter comes, fighting them and constantly monitoring their distribution on the site is your constant work.
