How to Get Rid of Rats in Gardens & Ornamental Landscapes
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Spotting rats on your property is never a good sign, but it can be worse to spot them around your garden or flower beds. Rats have sharp teeth and claws, giving them the ability to gnaw through any vegetation and cause additional damage with frequent burrowing and climbing.
The presence of holes or burrows may indicate Norway rats on your property. Norway rats will burrow in soft soils near reliable food sources such as gardens. They’re often found concealed underneath bushes or other types of vegetation. The entrances are typically 2 to 4 inches in diameter and run 1 to 6 feet deep.
Rats are shy, blind pests that travel along the sides of a structure in order to remain safe and hidden from predators. Look for grease marks along fences, gate posts, steps, or on the exterior of building walls adjacent to a garden or landscape space. In grassy areas, the vegetation will be flattened, worn, or dead, creating a noticeable path.
Droppings are the easiest identifier of rats. Rat droppings look similar to black grains of rice, only thicker and longer. Norway rat droppings have blunt ends and measure up to ¾ of an inch in length. Roof rat droppings have pointed ends and measure up to half an inch in length. You can find high concentrations of rat droppings on their runways or around feeding and nesting sites.
Rats are nocturnal, conducting most of their activity at night. Track the condition of any plants on your property. If any of them become damaged or disappear overnight, then that may be due to rats digging around. Pay particular attention to any plants grown for consumption, those may be targeted by hungry rats.
Rats will frequently gnaw on surfaces to maintain the health and size of their teeth. These gnaw marks can be seen on garden doors, fences, hoses, plants, and other materials made out of wood, rubber, vinyl, and low-grade concrete.
First, make your garden or landscaping less conducive to rodent activity. Rats prefer to travel in tall, dense grassy areas alongside structures or fences, so mow your lawn to its proper height when it gets too tall and trim any overgrown tree branches or shrubbery. Pick up any fallen plant debris to eliminate any nesting material from your property.
Outdoor garbage bins should be secured with a lid and stored away from your home, garden, and any landscape areas. Any fallen fruits or nuts in your yard or garden should be picked up and disposed of regularly.
Once your yard is cleaned up, start control by setting up snap traps. To control rodents outdoors, we recommend you use Easy Set Rat Traps placed inside of a Solutions Rat and Mouse Bait Station. Easy Set Rat Traps are durable and reusable traps designed to be safe to use and to eliminate rats quickly. By setting these traps inside of tamper-proof bait stations, you’ll avoid contact with people, children, or non-target animals. Set the stations along any structures the rats would travel along to reach the garden or landscape area. Do not set any stations in the garden. Check the traps daily to remove any dead rodents.
In addition to snap traps, you’ll want to use a rodenticide bait like Eratication Rodent Bait. Eratication is a slow-killing rodenticide that prevents a rodent population from developing bait shyness. Load a rat and mouse bait station with up to 4 Eratication blocks, and set the station flush against the exterior of your home’s structure. We recommend you set up multiple stations 20 to 40 feet apart. Check the stations once a day to replenish any bait until rodent activity ceases.
After setting up traps and bait, it may take up to two weeks to see a noticeable reduction in pest activity.
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Anybody try the cornbread mix with soda? We have a burrow under our house. They've never gotten inside the house but literally dug under the concrete of the garage and snacked on both car wires total of 5 times for over $1,000! If I use the soda I'm afraid they'll die under the house and we'll have bottle flies & stink!
Contrapest is what we are using. Just got some.
hi why not use snap traps in the garden area itself?
Because that would be too cheap and they can't sell their product.
Because you will kill native species
Snap traps if they’re getting food elsewhere are typically useless.
I’ve tried rat poison and anything else and they are not dying they are getting worse 😢 I’m half tempted to try molten brass or copper to kill them
I am having the same problem. Hundreds of dollars wasted on useless traps and poisons. Meanwhile, they are just multiplying like crazy
@@liad4482 Got to find where they are nesting, and eliminate the nest. If they are nesting in the ground, what has worked for me is gassing them, by sticking a hose in the burrow entrance and hooking the other end of the hose to an engine, like a lawn mower. You can also try flooding it out with water, or even sealing the entrance with concrete. You will never get them all if you dont find the nest, because they always leave the young in the nest, so there will always be more rats no matter how many you catch outside of the nest.This is why all the products are called "pest control" and not "pest elimination"
@@liad4482 air rifle and nitesite, will eliminate them
@@johncherry2205 I like how you think! Gonna try that for sure. Thank you!
my friend has just used dry ice (which is carbon dioxide in a frozen form) - the rats go to sleep, and you don't have to worry about other animals being poisoned (owls, pets). she just finished the first round, and will be watching to see if it worked like it was advertised.
Make a cake for them. Mix 2 tablespoons flour, raisins, pellet poison and sprinkle a little sugar on it on a paper plate. Put the plate out at night after 8 pm or pour the mix down the hole.
I just pour boiling water down a hole
Does it kill them? I want to do this
@@MultiDemara Most of the time it does, but sometimes they escape with major burns
@@MultiDemara it’s not the most effective way to do it either, so I wouldn’t recommend it. Maybe for small amounts, like 1 or 2 of them
@@dangerpillow5234 Thank you!
@@dangerpillow5234 how deep are the holes usually?