Rodents of many types find a nearly unlimited food supply at my place. One grow house is particularly vulnerable due to its open design. One morning this spring, I found the pepper plants in about six EBs nearly stripped of their leaves. By the rare chance, rabbits were to blame, I surrounded the pepper EBs with hard plastic fence material.
Well, the tomatoes started to come in heavy and so did the sharecroppers.
Here is what I tried. Put mint sprigs in jars filled with water and surrounded most of the Earthboxes. Everytime I walked through, I brushed up against the mint so it would release lots of scent. Reasonably confident, I had far less damage, I left some tomatoes fully ripen. All the ones that had mint nearly touching were not nibbled on, whereas I found nibbled on tomatoes on the ground where there was very little mint.
Mint grows roots in water in a few days and can be potted up.
Well, it might turn out, I'll have to grow at least as much mint as I do tomatoes, peppers, and eggplants.
I also tried electronic and manual traps. They tend to work only once and I guess the word goes out to stay clear of these contraptions!
