Here's a suggestion for those of you with mouse damage. A common mousetrap, baited with peanut butter and placed under an upside down bucket with a stick or rock under one edge to allow the mice to get under the bucket. I had a regular trap line going here last summer and most of the winter, even in freezing weather, and caught 1-5 every night for about 6 months! That's a lot of mice! We have 2 outside cats, a family of great horned owls and several varieties of hawks all catching mice as well. I was truly surprised! I trapped them in the hay shed, storage sheds, next to the back door where I feed the cats, next to the house foundation where I am sure they were accessing the basement via an old tunnel somewhere under the old siding which was covered with new siding about 18 years ago, around the greenhouse and in my vegie garden. At times I would move a trap and bucket and forget where I put it. Did you know that mice are carnivores? I have no problem removing a mouse or even half a mouse from a trap. Probably more info than you wanted
but the point here is, You Can Trap Them and lessen your problem with mice munching on your plants. I got a few voles too. After the nightly catch had slowed way down, I thought about keeping track. Last Jan I got 68.
