🚫 Protecting Sweetcorn from Mice & Rats | Top Allotment Tips

Rats or mice eyeing up your sweetcorn? Here’s a practical, humane plan to protect your crop. Keep paths tidy, remove spilled feed and windfalls, and raise seedlings strong before planting out. Bag cobs with breathable organza/paper once silks brown, and build a simple welded-mesh “cage” with an L-shaped skirt pegged down to stop digging. Harvest promptly, secure compost bins and water-butt lids, and store seed/feeds in metal bins. If pressure is high, use snap traps only inside secure tunnels/lockable boxes and follow site rules. #Sweetcorn #AllotmentTips #UKGardening #GrowYourOwn #RodentProofing #ProtectYourCrop #GardenPests #AllotmentLife #CornOnTheCob #HarvestProtection #GardeningWithBen