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No culprit yet. Tomatoes still aren't safe!

submitted by AugustineOfHippo2 to Gardening 2.7 yearsSep 1, 2022 12:18:15 ago (+28/-0)     (Gardening)

This is interesting cause I have put the tomatoes in the same spot for 6 or 7 years and never had a problem.
Anyway, put out mose and rat traps last night, but caught nothing by morning.
I'll keep the traps out, but I'm gonna keep looking for a creature to kill.
Updates to come 😁


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[ - ] Thatguy 6 points 2.7 yearsSep 1, 2022 12:20:03 ago (+6/-0)

Get a trail camera, you’ll be shocked, the culprit is probably your neighbor.

[ - ] Doglegwarrior 1 point 2.7 yearsSep 1, 2022 14:27:57 ago (+1/-0)

Probably a grabber.

Damn I complain about one liner jokes then I go and do one. But mine is anti jew so that's ok

[ - ] deleted 1 point 2.7 yearsSep 1, 2022 16:44:11 ago (+1/-0)

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[ - ] deleted 0 points 2.7 yearsSep 1, 2022 14:50:20 ago (+0/-0)

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[ - ] Gigglestick 0 points 2.7 yearsSep 1, 2022 23:52:54 ago (+0/-0)

Or some birds…

[ - ] lord_nougat 4 points 2.7 yearsSep 1, 2022 12:22:26 ago (+4/-0)

I bet it's diggernicks.

Kill him and this damage might end. One way to find out!

[ - ] Thatguy 4 points 2.7 yearsSep 1, 2022 12:26:19 ago (+4/-0)

If only there where a clean and quiet way to dispose of the corpse. Better off to let him live. Just saying….

[ - ] lord_nougat 4 points 2.7 yearsSep 1, 2022 12:34:29 ago (+4/-0)

Fertilizer for under the rosebed!

[ - ] Thatguy 3 points 2.7 yearsSep 1, 2022 12:41:02 ago (+3/-0)

Jesus, I just had a flashback from that scene in the walking dead, “look at the flowers Lizzie!”

[ - ] lord_nougat 4 points 2.7 yearsSep 1, 2022 12:48:35 ago (+4/-0)

It's good to remember the classics.

[ - ] Thatguy 2 points 2.7 yearsSep 1, 2022 12:55:40 ago (+2/-0)

Just for reference https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dCn7d_jDjg

I do like a revolver, simple and easy to use, but that’s not how you hold a weapon and aim. I have a .38 special, I use both hands when I aim.

[ - ] lord_nougat 1 point 2.7 yearsSep 1, 2022 12:59:22 ago (+1/-0)

Oh, the zombie soap opera. When I read 'walking dead', I thought of "Night of the Living Dead". And still didn't get the reference, but it's been a few decades since I watched that...

I almost liked this show, but for some reason it just got to be too much of a soap opera drama fest right away, what, like in the second season? Of course it's a soap opera where characters do get killed... so I guess at least there's that. Kind of like game of thrones, in a way I guess.

I should get a revolver. 38spls are cool. My 9mm aemiautomatics are adequate, though. But still, the more the merrier!

[ - ] Thatguy 1 point 2.7 yearsSep 1, 2022 13:00:41 ago (+1/-0)

I never finished the series, it got a little to woke for me.

[ - ] NeonGreen 0 points 2.7 yearsSep 1, 2022 13:46:08 ago (+0/-0)

Same. I kept trying to buy that was the divide about season 7 I just couldn't choke it down anymore.

[ - ] NeonGreen 0 points 2.7 yearsSep 1, 2022 13:46:09 ago (+0/-0)

Same. I kept trying to buy that was the divide about season 7 I just couldn't choke it down anymore.

[ - ] Peleg 0 points 2.7 yearsSep 1, 2022 18:54:09 ago (+0/-0)

Bring him on over to my place. I have Hogs! And access to some acid that will take care of any leftovers!

[ - ] Thatguy 0 points 2.7 yearsSep 1, 2022 19:01:17 ago (+0/-0)

I got to go on a hog hunt once and oh my god 30 round magazines weren’t enough. If ever in my life I needed full auto, I needed it then. I couldn’t shoot them fast enough. Those pigs were fast and scary. The ones we killed tasted terrible. I actually aimed as I squeezed my trigger. I barely hit any of them. They were fast as lightning. Very hard to kill and they needed killing.

[ - ] PotatoWhisperer 0 points 2.7 yearsSep 1, 2022 22:40:57 ago (+0/-0)

Best way to kill them is with those giant traps that get the whole bunch at once.

[ - ] AugustineOfHippo2 [op] 4 points 2.7 yearsSep 1, 2022 12:28:03 ago (+4/-0)

But digger is my frenemy, I couldn't bring myself to off the guy...

[ - ] FUBAR 0 points 2.7 yearsSep 1, 2022 12:37:02 ago (+0/-0)

Like I said before, groundhogs. Need a bigger traps, or better an IR camera and some night watching with a .22.

[ - ] GrayDragon 0 points 2.7 yearsSep 1, 2022 13:32:28 ago (+0/-0)

I swear mice are evolving to evade traps. The bastards have been taking food from various traps without setting them off. Standard spring traps, pressure plate no-kill traps, and these odd "jaws of death" traps, though recently the jaws thing got one of them. Unfortunately it has so much power, it splattered the mouse and blood was everywhere.

In your case, I would go with @Thatguy and get a trail camera. You want to know what you are dealing with.

[ - ] Fascinus 2 points 2.7 yearsSep 1, 2022 15:02:31 ago (+2/-0)

These are magic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzaroYTKyLE

non-(((jew)))Tube link: https://vid.puffyan.us/watch?v=MzaroYTKyLE

Nearby field was cleared for construction, causing the resident mice to look for a new home, which they happily found in our garage.

I set a few of these out and they were gone in less than a week.

Buddy of mine gasses them with automobile exhaust by throwing the traps in a garbage bag and using a towel to insulate the bag from the tail-pipe.

Seems like too much work for me.

I put the traps in a garbage bag and then put it in the freezer. Next day you've got little mouse-cicles that are easily disposed.

Pro-tip: The more you wind these things up, the less sensitive the pad becomes to weight. Try going under the max by 1/3 to 1/2 or so at the beginning, so you can get an idea of what you're dealing with.

[ - ] Seymore_potatohead 1 point 2.7 yearsSep 1, 2022 18:00:41 ago (+1/-0)

I fill a tub with water and drop the cage in. Dead in about 45 seconds

[ - ] Fascinus 0 points 2.7 yearsSep 1, 2022 18:11:15 ago (+0/-0)

Your method seems more efficient. Bet you could fit a couple of these into a single 5 gallon bucket.

[ - ] GrayDragon 1 point 2.7 yearsSep 1, 2022 22:58:16 ago (+1/-0)

Thanks! $30 for a reusable trap is nothing if it works decently. He said he caught four mice in one night. When I was at my apartment, between late afternoon until mid-evening, I caught four mice with a shitty $5 reusable, live-catch trap.
But these mice at my brother's house rarely fall for that trap for whatever fucking reason.

If I got a live catch, I drop the mouse off at a local forest park. I figure I am helping the owls and foxes that live there. Although I was getting annoyed driving a mile and walking a distance into the forest the day I caught four in a row (four trips, obviously).

[ - ] Peleg 2 points 2.7 yearsSep 1, 2022 19:57:30 ago (+2/-0)

The best "trap" I ever used was a simple do it yourself thing.
Take a 5 gallon bucket. Drill 2 holes straight across from each other. I used a 1/4 20 piece of all thread, so the holes need to be big enough for the all thread to fit through. I ran the thread through one hole then through a piece of 1/2 inch pvc pipe that would fit inside the bucket. It needs to be as close to the edges as possible but still spin. Run a couple nuts on the ends of the all thread. Fill the bucket about half full with water. Put some peanut butter all the way around the pvc pipe in the very middle of the bucket. Place something, anything, as ramps going up to the all thread.
This thing works so well! You will catch every mouse or rat you have!

[ - ] GrayDragon 0 points 2.7 yearsSep 1, 2022 23:09:46 ago (+0/-0)

Yeah, I have seen that on YT. This is probably the cheapest and most effective method. I was going to post a video on what you described, but then I came across this Mexican cartel-type mouse trap, WTF? (And it doesn't even work. It just tortures the mouse):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OecF-Nzex6Y&t=75s

[ - ] TardWhisperer 2 points 2.7 yearsSep 1, 2022 14:15:20 ago (+2/-0)

I think an automated machine gun perimeter like they used in the movie Congo is needed. Only way to be safe.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ss35wHcN6iQ

[ - ] SteppingRazor 0 points 2.7 yearsSep 1, 2022 14:41:39 ago (+0/-0)

Are you in a drought? They could be looking for water from the fruit. Put a water source nearby and see if that helps.

[ - ] Fascinus 1 point 2.7 yearsSep 1, 2022 14:50:54 ago (+1/-0)

Same thing happening here.

We've had field mice take up residence in a few of the raised beds.

Evidently, they have good taste since they only nibble the ripe ones.

[ - ] AugustineOfHippo2 [op] 1 point 2.7 yearsSep 2, 2022 12:54:38 ago (+1/-0)

only nibble the ripe ones.

Totally pisses the wife off. She was whipping a tomato across yard the other day. Kinda cool, cause she's real sexy when she's mad 😉

[ - ] KeepPoal4fags 1 point 2.7 yearsSep 1, 2022 14:51:35 ago (+1/-0)

Small mammals freak out over hot sauce. If it is a small mammal giving you trouble you can broadcast Capsaicin over the thing you want to protect. Get the hottest shit you can find, put it in a spray bottle mixed with warm water and apply. It should give them such a fright that they leave.

Also, rodents love compost piles, chicken coops and nut trees. Check those areas for burrows and gas em. Sieg heil!

[ - ] Rebooted 1 point 2.7 yearsSep 1, 2022 15:04:52 ago (+1/-0)

Neighbors had rats start eating their tomatoes this year. One of his sons went out with NODs and a pellet gone for a few weeks and cleared them mostly out.

[ - ] La_Chalupacabra 0 points 2.7 yearsSep 1, 2022 15:49:46 ago (+0/-0)

I forget where I saw it and I didn't save it, but someone posted a picture of an improved mouse trap where a semicircular metal shroud is attached over the triplever, which forces the mouse into a more vulnerable position, improving the kill-rate.

[ - ] beece 0 points 2.7 yearsSep 1, 2022 15:53:45 ago (+0/-0)

I've owned a Ketch All trap that Fasinus linked. https://vid.puffyan.us/watch?v=MzaroYTKyLE
Fucking amazing. They use them in grain elevators and storage where rodents are out of control and they'll keep scooping the fuckers up until it's crammed full or time to rewind.

Great product.

[ - ] observation1 1 point 2.7 yearsSep 1, 2022 17:41:40 ago (+1/-0)

Had one escape the sticky pad recently. Somewhere, there's a nude mouse on the loose.

[ - ] scoopadoop 0 points 2.7 yearsSep 1, 2022 18:28:08 ago (+0/-0)

Put plastic fruit cases from the store around your tomatoes. it lets the light in on them and keeps the critters out.

[ - ] Spaceman84 0 points 2.7 yearsSep 1, 2022 18:38:00 ago (+0/-0)

Use fried chiggums as bait