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    Mice have carried rat poison onto my seedlings bed

    I put a bait station in the polytunnel because mice were digging up the seedlings. However, I noticed this morning that they seem to have carried some of the grans of poison onto the top of my seedlings bed.

    I have taken off what I can see but I want to know if this will contaminate my crop?
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    hmmm...maybe next time a few 'little nippers' might be the answer to controlling your mice problem??

    ...that's the problem with poisons...I bet you'd feel awful if you found a dead owl on your plot, having just eaten a mouse half poisoned in your polytunnel- or a dead hedgehog or feral/pet cat?

    sorry- no idea how your seedlings/soil will now be affected- maybe contact the manufacturers????
    Last edited by Nicos; 28-03-2014, 11:22 AM.
    "Nicos, Queen of Gooooogle" and... GYO's own Miss Marple

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    • #3
      That sort of thing happens when you play with poisons.
      Old fashioned trap might get your finger occasionally but you don't have dangerous chemicals all over the place - contact the manufacturer for advice
      "...Very dark, is the other side, very dark."

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      • #4
        What is the poison?
        Are you transplanting seeds later?

        No self respecting owl eats an already dead mouse. They would eat a mouse thats just filled up on poison though. BUT they are unlikely to have eaten enough of a still alive mouse to kill them unless they are eating lots of them...

        Personally I'd have tried a ultrasonic thingy as its a confined area...

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        • #5
          Sorry to have upset people with the fact that I have used poison. But I back on to fields and a brook and in the wet weather we get infested not only with mice but rats, so I am afraid I would be losing an up hill battle with 'Little Nippers'.

          It was so bad with rats at one time, that I had to hire a professional company to sort things out, as they were in the garage even during the day.

          The small pieces I have found are in a raised bed with salad and carrot seedlings growing.

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          • #6
            As a deterrent to mice try sprinkling round your seedlings with ground dried chillies as mice have sensitive noses and also put some very prickly leaves/twigs round them.
            Rats tend to go for food rather than seeds ie potatoes, sweetcorn..
            If you put down traps make sure they arein a pot or something so birds can't get caught and also tie them down as we think theres a couple of rats on our site that went off wearing a trap,,
            S*d the housework I have a lottie to dig
            a batch of jam is always an act of creation ..Christine Ferber

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