During the winter months, rodents and hares cause tremendous damage to trees and shrubs in orchards. Young apple, pear, cherry, and other fruit trees are particularly vulnerable to rodent damage. Rats also like ornamental crops and prefer hawthorn and honeysuckle. Rats move around under the snow, picking up tree trunks, branches, and even roots. Therefore, in order to effectively protect your garden, you must take a number of measures: spread deterrents, install bait, bind and wrap around tree trunks, and trample snow on root areas. You will learn more about Protect Your Garden from Rats and Hares by Bubgo article.
Before bundling fruit trees, you need to trim all weeds from the trees near the stem circle, between rows and adjacent edges. Then tie the trunk of the fruit tree with roofing material, cardboard, cling film, or fine wire mesh. Do not use rags and ropes - mice can easily chew through them. From a hare, tying knots with roofing felt or spruce branches from spruce also help. Remember, young trees 1-3 years old need protection first.
Today there is a wide range of poisonous baits available for rodent control in the countryside and gardens, for example, cereal baits such as "Stop the Water". You can find them in any specialist store without any problems. However, you must make sure that when you spread the poisonous substance on your plot, it cannot be eaten by birds or pets. Decoys are usually wrapped in thick paper bags or cardboard boxes and placed around trees.
It is also convenient to use metal tubes to place the bait. Take pieces that are 4-6 inches (10-15 cm) in diameter and 12-15 inches (30-40 cm) in length and place them diagonally in a hole dug in the ground. Backfill so that only one end of the tube remains on the surface for small animals to enter. By placing a toxic agent at the bottom of such a burrowing tube, mice will crawl into the burrow in search of food and eat the bait.
Insect repellents are used to treat tree holes and branches. A special mixture is also applied to those materials whose trunks are tied down (the same roofing felt, nets, etc.).
Creolin, carbolic acid, and naphthalene are considered effective insect repellents. Prepare a mixture of crushed peat, sawdust, or ashes. And if you soak the mixture in a 10% solution of Creolin, it will also have a repellent effect. Sprinkle repellents, preparations, and mixtures around fruit trees.
Rats walk around under the snow, under a warm, loose blanket. Therefore, in winter, as soon as the snow falls and accumulates, you should tamp it down in your garden and seedbeds. If you don't, mice will chew off a ring of bark on the trunk and the branches below near the ground. Then the tree is finished and will wilt. Circular wounds are vital to all plants. This damage disrupts the communication between the plant and its root system, and nutrients cannot be supplied through the bark.
Rodents not only destroy tree holes and above-ground plants during the winter but also what remains below the surface. Rodents can enter any perennial plant through their burrows - currants, roses, leeks, parsley, etc. Trampled snow will act as a barrier to the rodents' movements and they will not be able to destroy roots, rhizomes, and bulbs.
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