Mysterious disappearance of seed potatoes

[Chantal]

Just because I now insure my car through SAGA...

OLD BIDDIE!

[glallotments]

Foiled again eh?

[Chantal]

I rather suspected they'd leave the potato and lick up all the flour

Have you got any suspects yet? If the flour all goes, use talcum powder; they'll have lovely smooth bottoms

[oldherbaceous]

Dear Chantal, are we talking about the rats or the convicts.

[alan refail]

Still no sign of either

[Chantal]

Hmm, but are the spuds still disappearing?

This is like an episode of Jonathan Creek

[alan refail]

No. Bait spud is still there

[Chantal]

I have my own problems now. Something has been raiding the greenhouse and scoffing first the broad beans and now the sweetcorn which was just starting to sprout.

I have put out the mousetrap for the past two nights, baited with Marathon bar and on both occasions the bait has gone, the trap has sprung but no victim. I am now suspecting something larger than a mouse and have left the rest of the semi wrapped Marathon in place of the trap. If the whole damn thing goes missing, I shall be out shopping for rat bait

Diego and Fabio have been snooping around the greenhouse, but short of making them live in there, there's not a lot they can do and I'm worried about paws and noses in mouse traps.

I've resown the sweetcorn and covered with a propagetor lid; interesting there's been no thieving of the seed potatoes

[alan refail]

Hi Chantal

Sounds like mice. I had problems in the tunnel last autumn with mice eating late sown broad beans. I lost over half, but eliminated the mice with a couple of these



"The big cheese" - look flimsy but are deadly

[Suzie]

.... I shall be out shopping for rat bait

and looking for a large mouse with chocolate all around his/her chops

[Chantal]

Looks more like a box for a big cheeseburger!

It's a mouse with chocolate around it's chops (thank you Suzie )
as the chocolate is stripped off the bar, but very little teeth marks and most of the bar is still there.

A trap on a more stable surface is required, I think.

At least I didn't lose any seeds last night!

[alan refail]

Looks more like a box for a big cheeseburger!

Small, light and flimsy (to look at) but it really works.

[Suzie]

...as the chocolate is stripped off the bar, but very little teeth marks and most of the bar is still there.

Ah I see - here's a plan, ask at the Dentist if they have recently had a tooth-less mouse in

See our Ma always said too much chocolate was bad for our teeth

[Chantal]

Yeah, one whose breath smells of peanuts!