Mice eating my spuds!

I'm new to the potato game, and probably planted too many this year. I have enjoyed delicious pickings straight from the ground and then harvested the rest, dried and sorted them and stored a couple of new hessian sacks-full in a dry, dark garage.

So far so good. However, after a few days I found holes in the sacks and teeth marks in my prize potatoes! I have now put down poison and a mousetrap. Tally after 4 days is 8 trapped mice and all the daily topped-up poison eaten so I might be fighting a losing battle!

Any tips, please on mouse-proof storage? I presume that a chicken wire crate around the sacks is one answer, but I suspect that there may be a simpler and more elegant solution?

I await enlightenment. (Please be quick as I suspect that the mice will soon get wise to the mousetrap - the present lump of Cheddar has accounted for 5 mice!)

 

yes a beam away from the walls works for me.

 

I'm surprised that hanging them up is a sufficient deterrent, but I'll be delighted if it works! I will now go and hang up my potato sacks and report back. (Just to be sure, I'll keep the mousetrap set too!)

 

I hope it works as that's what I was planning on doing with my sacks keep us informed

 

Sacks now suspended (having removed any nibbled potatoes) and waiting developments. At ground level mouse No 9 has now attempted to eat my cheese - and failed.

 

Mouse No 10 snuffed it on Thursday night (still the same piece of cheese!). Nothing in the trap today and no poisoned bait taken, so either
a) All the mice are dead
b) The mice have eventually worked out how the trap works
or c) Hanging up your sacks of spuds really does work!

I shall continue my surveillance.

 

I remember seeing our spuds on wooden trays hanging from the beams in the scullery by wires. Heaps of them and I was petrified they would crush me if they fell, as I sat underneath splitting morning wood, doing my chores as a lad:D.

 

Don't take the trap up just in case and keep us informed :thumb:

 

Paladin

Off on a tangent - I've never heard the phrase "morning wood" before. Presumably it's what I would call kindling?

When I googled it I got an interesting definition of the colloquialism (on Wikipedia). I presume that this was NOT what you were referring to!

 

:thumb:That's it Prastio......by the blinkin bundle:D

 

Mouse Sitrep.

10 days clear of mice! Nothing in the trap and no poison taken.

I doubted the advice to hang up the sacks but I was obviously wrong and grovel to your superior knowledge!

(The bad news is that I have just caught a mouse in a trap inside an eaves cupboard, so it looks as though the mice have decided to move into my house!)