Re: voles/mice

>Mike and any other pumpkin growers,
>     Did you send your varmints up here or what? The sob's hit my patch in
>the past 24hrs. the evidence is there around the base of one of my 815's
>that is nearing the 700 pound mark. Well I'll tell you what I have done so
>far and let me know if you have any other suggestions.  I sprayed the raw
>exposed flesh that is near the ground with captan solution. then I located
>a tiny tunnel under the stem end. I dug out as far as I can reach and it
>seems there is a open space up under there.I am hoping that it's just a
>concave bottom and not a hole into the pumpkin. Maybe I should keep
>digging more. but I just couldn't stand it. In stead of calling 911 and
>risk being locked up in a mental ward...I set off a couple gas sticks
>under the pumpkin. there was smoke coming out at the base on the sides of
>the pumpkin so I sealed off all around it with moist dirt . so now no
>smoke  comes out. and I lit another one. covered the entrance of the hole
>with a round river rock . Now I have 4 boxes o!
>f Decon and 8 mouse traps loaded up with the chunky peanut butter. I will
>set them out around the pumpkin too.  Is there anything else that you know
>that works. I want to see dead bodies as soon as possible. Hope they
>haven't made a mouse house of my big one!
>   This sucks! Hoping for the best here...  shellie
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Shellie,

Ain't it a b$&*@.........I use dry captan on  the sides dried them up on
mine just fine...and they were oooozing an stinky ,,,,,,,but seems to be
healing over.......................be careful with the smoke bomb under the
pumpkin make sure you had a good amount of soil between the bomb and the
pumpkin....as you don't want to kill the pumpkin cells from the heat of the
bomb.... did that once and caused rot......jeez went out this morning and
something got my 30lb Tom turkey........busted a nice Japanese maple tree
sapling....knock patio chairs in the process............tracked it to the
creek and found the turkey carcass.......then I blasted to the one man
weigh-off.......carved a pumpkin.....came home and went looking for tracks
.......there it was a big mother Bobcat........we both jumped 6ft in the
air..........so the pumpkins are on hold now....its jungle out
there..................war zone........Does this mean a real cold winter as
the mice are going crazy.......La nina??................good luck.....go
7.......brock


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