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Posted by lizalily Western WA, USA (My Page) on Sun, Nov 1, 09 at 11:55
| IT came to me, as I was looking at my kitchen counters full of fruit I have no cool place to store...once the bulbs go in for the winter, the screenhouse would be perfect for storing my apples, root crops, etc, in bins of straw or wood chips over the winter! Our winters are usually mild here, with short spells of real cold occassionally down from Canada. But we have long chill autumns where the fruit only needs to be kept safe from Raccoons and mice. Boxes of apples would keep well on the shelves and could be covered with blankets during those cold spells, or moved inside. I have been wracking my brains trying to figure out how to do a fruit cellar on land with a high water table in the winter, and no basements. THe answer is to build up...but mice still remain a problem...Voila! Insect proof equals mice proof! MIght have to have two layer walls...rat wire over screen, but that won't hurt the amaryllis at all! |
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RE: Another reason for a summer screen house.
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Good plan. Mice are chewers though...so use extra layers...and traps!
K |
RE: Another reason for a summer screen house.
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- Posted by jodik 5 Central IL (My Page) on
Sun, Nov 1, 09 at 18:35
| We have a huge mouse problem in winter... living out in the country has its price. The barn cats take care of the barn, the garages, and the sheds... but the kennel and the house remain problems. We've done the trap thing, but there are just too many mice... so we've resorted to poison. We use a brand called Hawk. It comes in a bucket, with lots of little sealed envelopes of poison. The mice chew the little bags and eat the poison inside, then die. There is no carry over, so even if the dogs or cats were to eat a poisoned mouse, they wouldn't get sick. And the dead mice dry up from the inside out, so there's rarely any odor. We've used this brand for years... and it beats the heck out of Victor or Toms or most of the other brands available. You'd need thick enough wire caging so rats or shrews couldn't chew through it... plus fine enough screening so bugs couldn't get through. Then, you'd need a backup plan of traps or poisons, just in case. But I think a screen house would make a nice above ground root cellar... with wooden bins full of a material you could layer apples or root vegetables in... it sound nice! |
RE: Another reason for a summer screen house.
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Yum! Fresh apples, see we can't grow them either! I'd love a screen house just for summer and the skeeters.
We have a HUGE rat and mouse problem on the island right now. All the empty houses, torn down properties, empty buidings and the piles of debris. Toss in the fact that the City and the Wharves aren't putting out bait. The hospital has such a problem that you can only eat in certain areas in some buildings. Rats were running down the halls in the middle of the day. Luckily there are no patients in that area. The mice ate the MRE'S!! They are in boxes, each meal in plastic and each item in cardboard, foil wraps, etc.
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RE: Another reason for a summer screen house.
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- Posted by jodik 5 Central IL (My Page) on
Tue, Nov 3, 09 at 10:54
| Rodents are sneaky little beasts, to be sure... able to flatten themselves or contort their little bodies to fit through the tiniest of openings... which reminds me, I must throw more poison packs in the basement and kennel areas before the mice take over! I can hear them chewing in the walls at night, and I see them running in broad daylight out in the kennel... the population is too high! Time to eradicate! |
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