This year I grew tomatoes, and found rats are stealing them. I am certain it’s rats because I have seen them. Have tried netting the tomato plants, but rats found ways in. Called an exterminator to bait in the roof and under house. Feel ambivalent about it, because if a predator bird takes an affected rat it may get ill. But I’m located deep in suburbia and have never seen an owl or eagle so I think it’s unlikely. Didn’t work though, still have rats. Have given up on the tomatoes, plants are destroyed. What are your strategies for ridding yourself of ratty pestilences?
this post was submitted on 29 Jan 2024
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Use a mixture of warfarin "normal ratsak" and bromadialone something like "the big cheese". Maybe those wax type blocks might work better.... Also set up some traps and make it a two pronged attack... More than likely you'll have them in a neighboring property and they'll be spreading to your place. Depends on how inviting your property is... I live rurally and have rodent problems at times. My place has so many baits in the roof under the house in the shed etc that it glows from space haha...