Help with MICE - Preventative
I keep seeing posts about mice and the trouble of getting them 'gone'. Some 'getting' (capture) of the mice come up with all kinds of ways to 'gettem gone'.
Peanut butter on 'snap traps', sometimes with bacon grease to bacon bits added to help lure them in works, others claim no dice or mice. Some have added cotton balls to the traps to help tangle them up... Others try different methods altogether, the electronic silent noice type, live traps, sticky traps, the list is endless!
But what do you do once they're out??
My Solution --
Peppermint!
At home at the S&B (sticks and bricks) I plant peppermint. It is a very hardy plant and drought resistant when we are gone for long periods. We plant this around all of our buildings as a 'barrier' to mice so they don't enter, or at least rarely.
Keep in mind I am specifically talking about peppermint, not any other kind of mint. This is the only mint that seems to work. If you are having trouble remembering this, think about Christmas many generations ago. Christmas trees were decorated with candies and popcorn -- but also candy canes!! Candy canes were/are peppermint and kept the mice away out of the trees.
At home we found that in the attic we have never had mice get into any cardboard box that would be easy for them to get in, if it had a candy cane or two in the box.
From there we started keeping it in the pantry during harvest season as we are surrounded by barley fields -- mouse heaven! When the combines roared we also would always see mice on the run for safe harbor. This kept them out of our kitchen.
So one summer I got smart and started planting the herb all around our outbuildings and the house.
Mouse free since!
So if you have finally gotten them out of your coach, travel trailer, or even your S&B. Put in some dried herb, candies, etc.
I haven't tried the peppermint oil on cotton balls, but if you try it let me know how that works.
Sam
Peanut butter on 'snap traps', sometimes with bacon grease to bacon bits added to help lure them in works, others claim no dice or mice. Some have added cotton balls to the traps to help tangle them up... Others try different methods altogether, the electronic silent noice type, live traps, sticky traps, the list is endless!
But what do you do once they're out??
My Solution --
Peppermint!
At home at the S&B (sticks and bricks) I plant peppermint. It is a very hardy plant and drought resistant when we are gone for long periods. We plant this around all of our buildings as a 'barrier' to mice so they don't enter, or at least rarely.
Keep in mind I am specifically talking about peppermint, not any other kind of mint. This is the only mint that seems to work. If you are having trouble remembering this, think about Christmas many generations ago. Christmas trees were decorated with candies and popcorn -- but also candy canes!! Candy canes were/are peppermint and kept the mice away out of the trees.
At home we found that in the attic we have never had mice get into any cardboard box that would be easy for them to get in, if it had a candy cane or two in the box.
From there we started keeping it in the pantry during harvest season as we are surrounded by barley fields -- mouse heaven! When the combines roared we also would always see mice on the run for safe harbor. This kept them out of our kitchen.
So one summer I got smart and started planting the herb all around our outbuildings and the house.
Mouse free since!
So if you have finally gotten them out of your coach, travel trailer, or even your S&B. Put in some dried herb, candies, etc.
I haven't tried the peppermint oil on cotton balls, but if you try it let me know how that works.
Sam
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