Re: voles/mice
- To: <pumpkins@mallorn.com>
- Subject: Re: voles/mice
- From: "* &* M* <m*@olywa.net>
- Date: Sat, 19 Sep 1998 17:49:40 -0700
Jack I'm ready for some humor. what page do I start reading on? Sally
>Sally
> Go back to Pumpkins are Orange and check on the only sure way to get rid
>of them
>Jack
>SURGEON FISHIN' PUMPKINS ARE ORANGE
>breckenridge@localaccess.com
>http://www.owt.com/users/jdixon/jack.htm
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Shellie & Mick <mcramer@olywa.net>
>To: pumpkin growers <pumpkins@mallorn.com>
>Date: Saturday, September 19, 1998 1:55 PM
>Subject: 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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