Re: rodents and peas
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- Subject: Re: rodents and peas
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- Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1999 06:42:09 +0000 (GMT)
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On Thu 18 Feb, Meconella@aol.com wrote:
> HI all,
>
> Of late some sort of rodent has been eating my sugar snap peas. They wait
> till the fruits are mature, then eat the side off half the pod and then eat
> the seeds inside. They are doing a lot of damage and getting almost half of
> the fruits.
>
> Anyone have any idea what this might be or how to prevent it?. Here we have
> both rats and mice and little ground squirrels. My guess is mice because of
> the small teeth marks.
>
> The cats have been of no help what-so-ever.
>
> Janet.
>
Surely the idea of Sugar Snap peas is to pick them before the actual
peas inside are any real size, that is the pods are still flat. They are
a type of 'mangetout' (eat-all in English)'. If you treat them this way
then the mice would not have anything to take.
I presume you are training the peas up nets or something, they are tall peas and if not trained would be easier for the mice to reach. The only other thing I can think of is the number of plants, we grow all our peas in 50 ft.double rows, anything shorter the damage would be that much more obvious.
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Allan Day Hereford HR2 7AU allan@crwys.demon.co.uk
