New to growing your own tomatoes? This is the forum to learn the successful techniques used by seasoned tomato growers. Questions are welcome, too.
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Apr 2015
Location: NC
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8 days ago I planted seed for 18 varieties - 4 seed each and have been impatiently waiting ever since... Until today that is.
![]() Fast forward to this morning -- nothing / nada / zilch. ![]() War has been declared ![]() At the same time, I'm going to start again with hopefully a better outcome. With luck, I'll have something to plant. |
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Feb 2013
Location: Southeast Kansas
Posts: 878
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Good luck. Same happened to me last year. My light stand this year is surrounded by traps. It's really maddening to get up in the morning and there's nothing where the day before there were dozens of seedlings. Also might have shed a tear or two.
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Feb 2015
Location: San Diego-Tijuana
Posts: 2,594
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glue glue glue traps!!!!
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BANNED FOR LIFE
Join Date: May 2014
Posts: 13,333
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I agree, glue traps.
We have a cat that I thought - we won't have mice. Then I caught the cat trying to lay on the seedlings. |
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Apr 2015
Location: NC
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Nov 2011
Location: ohio
Posts: 4,350
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Get snap traps and bait them with rolos or tootsie rolls. It works spectacular! glue traps I can't find it in my heart to use. I hate mice, but I can't glue trap them either. Snap traps are pretty fast to kill them. If it is any consolation... You aren't the only one... I had a mouse in my greenhouse this season already diggin up my seeds and eating them. I have a tray of impatiens... 100 seeds and about 10 seedlings emerged. I think it ate all the rest. but now it is dead. I trapped it and donated it to the neighbors snake.
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Mar 2015
Location: Zone 5A, Poconos
Posts: 959
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![]() ![]() Use something with a fixed top over it so the mice can't get to it when the seeds are germinating! They don't need light at that time, just heat and moisture. You can even germinate them in a damp napkin or coffee filter put in a baggie inside a drawer or a gun safe (if you think the mice are that determined)! When they sprout, then put them into soil and you probably won't have an issue if you wiggle the seed helmets off first. |
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Jul 2014
Location: kentucky
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A Victor mouse trap baited with a single grain of corn, will catch every mouse in the house. Just wedge the kernel of corn under the teeth on the bait peddle. I caught more than a dozen one fall and never re-baited the trap!
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Feb 2015
Location: San Diego-Tijuana
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Glue is cruel I agree, although you do hear 'em as soon as they get stuck. You just need to help them along, cervical dislocation/decapitation is pretty fast.
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Jun 2012
Location: Illinois, zone 6
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Yes. The animal rights people hate glue traps, because no one will kill the mouse when they pick up the trap. Take it outside, fold it in half, and stomp on it. That's the humane thing to do.
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Den of Drunken Fools
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While cleaning up outside the other day I killed two with the heal of my boot.
They have ruined the wiring in one of my trucks and it wont start now. ![]() Worth |
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Den of Drunken Fools
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I hate glue traps all my neighbor lady catches with them is little harmless snakes and lizards.
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Jul 2014
Location: kentucky
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Aug 2011
Location: Plantation, Florida zone 10
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Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Feb 2015
Location: San Diego-Tijuana
Posts: 2,594
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I've got a hefty karmic debt with Mus musculus.
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