It's not just those pesky snails and adorable deer that threaten all your hard work in the garden. Lots of other animals want to get in on the feast too. Here are easy, and tried and true ways to keep them from harvesting all your veggies before you do.

Mice, Moles and Voles

Mice

Moles eat in general earthworms and grubs. Voles eat plants, especially perennial roots, seeds and bulbs. Here are some ideas to convince them to go eat elsewhere.
• Boards: Mice and moles love melons. Place a board under the fruit to deter moles from digging directly underneath your fruit.
• Urine: Human urine poured into a mole hole will encourage them to move elsewhere.
• Trench: Dig a trench around either your orchad or around private plants that gophers and moles are targeting. In the trench, bury mesh metal wire fencing or metal window screen at least 18" inches deep, and fill the trench in again. Make sure the mesh is small adequate that the moles can't get straight through it. When the gophers and moles are digging, they won't be able to get to your plants or the surrounding area because they will run into the fencing and not be able to chew or dig through.
• Castor bean plants: These are poisonous to gophers and moles. If you plant these in your yard or garden, rodents should no longer be a problem. However, castor bean plants are poisonous so be just with children and pets. You can also try putting castor oil down the mole hole.
• High frequency emitting device: The noises are undetectable to the human ear, and also do not seem to bother household pets. Pests do not like the sound and move elsewhere.
• Put used kitty litter down the hole
• Buy lava rocks and soak them in an onion and garlic solution.

Squirrels

• Petroleum jelly: Place bird feeders away from the orchad and at least 6 feet off the ground. If the bird feeder is on top of a pole, place a baffle on the pole so that it cannot be climbed, or lubricate the pole with petroleum jelly to keep the squirrel (or chipmunk) from getting a good foothold.
• Plastic pipe: Place plastic pipe over the wire of your suspended bird feeder, so squirrels cannot get a good footing.
• Wire mesh: protect newly planted bulbs with one inch mesh poultry wire over the plantings. Cover them with mulch. The plants will grow straight through the mesh, but squirrels will be prevented from digging.
• Motion detection sprinklers: Sudden bursts of water will frighten squirrels (and other critters), at least temporarily.

Rabbits

• White vinegar: Same as deer, raccoons, dogs and cats -- rabbits don't like the scent of vinegar either. Rags soaked in white vinegar once a week should keep them away.
• Wire mesh: Surround your orchad with 1/2" inch wire mesh. Fence should be 2 to 3 feet high above ground and at least 1 foot deep to stop rabbits from burrowing under the fencing. Bend the top 6" inches of mesh outward to stop rabbits from getting over the top of the fence.
• Kitty litter: Spread used kitty litter along the edge of the orchad once a week to scare rabbits away.
• Human hair: Sprinkle human hair clippings from your local attractiveness shop around the plants. It's best if you can get hair that hasn't been washed.

Crows

• Soaker hose: Place any soaker hoses around in the garden, and curve them so they look like snakes.
• Owl decoys: Place an owl decoy near the site where crows flock, and leave it there for a day or two. Some crows do get used to the immobile owl figure, and identify that it is not a real owl after some time, so remove it for any days and replace in a different location.
• Clean up: Keep your surroundings clean. Crows sometimes flock to areas that aren't clean... Areas where there are poor garbage disposal practices, and where there's plentifulness of food for them.
• Shiny things: Hang shiny things from around trees, stakes, or from the plants themselves. Try Cds, aluminum foil or reflective streamers.

Happy Gardening!

Field mice are a sick to gardeners and farmers in general. You can't hide whatever in your garden, even your root crops and fruit vegetables are not spared by the destructive characters of these rodents.

I have experienced this problem in my garden too. Oftentimes, I would mumbled silently when I could see my carrots, tomatoes, eggplants, and beans munched by them. It's frustrating when you see your crops damaged by these small animals without pity.

Mice

However, I discovered some ways to get rid of rodents. Here are the tricks I've made to control them.

• Poison bite. I mixed the poison bite with milled rice and placed them inside a bamboo tube 8 inches long. I distributed about 4 bamboo tubes filled with the mixed poison nearby my garden placed in every projection of the garden. I fixed the tube with sticks on both sides to hold them in place. The mixed poison bite is free from the rain falls since they're protected inside the bamboo tube. You can use a plastic pipe if you don't have bamboos in your area.

• Field sanitation. A clean garden also helps you get rid of field mice. They stays under cut grasses or other materials they could in effect hide. I always monitor my garden of any filed mice presence by checking nearby if there are scattered waste materials they could maybe hide. Don't ever let them give a occasion to stay in your garden.

• Put fence around. Someone else way to ward-off rodents is to fenced nearby your garden. Although this is a small bit costly, but it's worth the expense. If you've capital to buy a G.I sheets, this is the most sufficient way to get rid of field mice and other destructive animals. To install a G.I. Sheets fencing, divide the sheets into 3 equal sizes lengthwise. Bury about 6 inches below the soil one of the cut sheet and nail them in the posts you've planted around. The purpose of burying a part of the sheet is to block the mice from burying holes below the fence. Mice are used to development holes in the soil to stay.

• Cornmeal mixed with dry cement. Someone else way to control field mice is to put down cornmeal mixed with a small dry cement in a shallow container. When they eat the mixed, plus a mixed with a small water comfortably placed nearby, the cement will set-up in their stomach and it will not be digested and caused the mixed to solidify inside the mouse stomach and gently killing them.

• install traps. There are ready made traps you can buy in some agriculture stores. You can capture these field mice in baited snap traps or use live traps and then take them to a faraway open water and drown them to death.

Happy gardening!