Kitchen Garden Forum

i had Rats clinbing up and half eating all my tomatoes in my tunnel last autumn.

I had terrible problems with rats last winter, bur despite the mild winter this year they have been less troubling. I think it may have something to do with the fact we've now got a Jack Russel, who though she doesn't catch many rats clearly persuades them to go elsewhere by just being about, digging at their holes etc.

somebody was telling me that Rats hate the smell of jeyes fluid. Anyone else heard the same?

We seem to have finally conquered our rat invasion generally ( courtesy of a very expensive poison from our local farmer suppliers) but there's still some evidence that a few stalwarts are particularly partial to Jerusalem Artichokes. They've taken 5 rows of them, 5 inches apart in each row, with the precision of an oil drill.

We ought to be able to locate them from the sound of wind, but they don't appear to be that troubled!

Many moons ago I remember a discussion about rats and someone mentioned jeyes fluid - or maybe it was moles... Anyway I had a jack russel and they are brill ratters - many farmers keep them for that very reason and good 'ratter russels' are worth a lot of money. The short answer to the original post is 'no' they only ever come in multiples - or should that be multitudes?