Glad your going to,stuck with it come summer you’ll be in a much happier place 🥰. It’s wet cold and wet here in SW Canada but we hope to get sunshine and a wee bit of warmth by the end of this week. When they said spring back the clocks they didn’t mean a month did they 🤔. I have almost all my tulips 🌷 eaten by mice but they not touch the daffs as they are technically poison. Have a good week keep smiling, Ali 🥶☔️🇨🇦

@JacobsonFamilyAllotment

Жыл бұрын

Thanks yea hopefully when the sun comes out more I will pick up. We were ment to get a heat wave but it didn't happen. It doesn't look like my flowers have been ate going to have to fill it with some compost. Hopefully get some heat soon stay safe Ali

Use baking soda mixed 50/50 with peanut butter works as a 'safe' rat poison, it really works, best trap that they don't seem to learn to avoid, and you don't have to constantly reset, is the beer can water trap baited with peanut butter (loads of examples on YT). I've kept chickens for 20yrs, fighting rats has been a losing battle for the most part until I discovered the two pronged aproach I above a couple of yrs ago, using baking soda/peanut butter mix and the beer can water trap finally has me feeling I'm winning. I've had rats move in 4 times in the last yr (we're near a river) each time they're gone within 2 weeks using this method. The whole site would be less attractive to rats if there was a lot less junk lying about, they don't like open ground due to fear from flying preditors, maybe just put all the junk in one place to concentrate them there, hanging the chicken feeders off the ground on chains also helps make the whole place less attractive to them. HTH.

@JacobsonFamilyAllotment

Жыл бұрын

Av see the trap before going to have to use it. I thought I had won but the have started to dig where I showed. Our site isn't the best and is next to a old landfill so rats are everywhere. Think I might use all your ideas next week

I had a problem with rats last year digging in my compost bin and strawberry bed. I poisoned them. I didn’t like doing it but it had to be done as they stole every ripe strawberry. Poison down every hole, and it took a couple of weeks. I also turn my compost weekly now otherwise they move in.👍🏻🤠

@JacobsonFamilyAllotment

Жыл бұрын

Am trying to keep turning the soil or just putting a folk through nothing has jumped out yet. Didn't think rats would just dig out in the open. Does it not effect the plants with the poison in the soil

@nickthegardener.1120

Жыл бұрын

@@JacobsonFamilyAllotment they ate most of the poison and took it into their nest which I think was below the compost bin. I did put some in a hole in my brassica cage but the brassicas actually did ok there and were rubbish everywhere else. Basically it was poison or potentially loose everything. 👍🏻

@nickthegardener.1120

Жыл бұрын

@@grahamthomas411 I went to the local pet shop and got some blue grain sacks, when they ate that I got some blocks of poison from wilkos. Basically anything!👍🏻🤠

I’m also shite at labelling, it makes it more interesting tho.😂👍🏻

@JacobsonFamilyAllotment

Жыл бұрын

Keeps you on your toes guessing what is what. Sow all the time and think crap forgot what is what. I have to watch back videos to see what I done 😂

@nickthegardener.1120

Жыл бұрын

@@JacobsonFamilyAllotment i labelled my market more 76 as m& m, I also labelled my Minnesota midget m&m. They both look the same but a cucumber and a melon.😂👍🏻

@JacobsonFamilyAllotment

Жыл бұрын

@@nickthegardener.1120 😂😂 Love it good luck with that

Are these allotments hard to get and do you pay for them

@JacobsonFamilyAllotment

3 ай бұрын

They can be it took about 2 years for me. Your local council will have forms where you can says what areas you are looking for. Depending on what the allotment has on it and size the price can change I pay just over £40 a year but some can be just over £100 a year

Rats are using your plot as a run to get to the chickens behind you

@JacobsonFamilyAllotment

Жыл бұрын

Going to have to set traps right along that fence aren't I. Wouldn't risk poison their chickens.