Morning Glories: HELP! What would do this????, 1 by beckygardener

beckygardener wrote:
blue - I do not want to kill the mice. They are in my yard because I feed the birds, squirrels, and the mice. My fault for doing that. I guess I could trap them and relocate them into the woods somewhere. And usually they don't hang out in my yard. But the rain has flooded their territory behind my backyard fence, so that is why they are in my yard more or all the time now. (Though I don't know if they are actually living in my yard.) I don't even mind if they are living in my yard as long as there aren't too many of them and they are not destroying my plants. (Of course we all know that mice and rabbit produce lots and lots of babies!) But so far over the past 6 months I've only had a few 2-3 mice at any given time. I do have owls and hawks that live near by and they do eat the mice. I've seen both birds in my yard and know they were hunting the mice. Which may be why my population is low. All the better. I love seeing the birds of prey come that close!

I guess my main problem is that I am into gardening as well as wildlife. Sometimes the two don't mix. I'm trying to find a happy median. Several folks have suggested the wire around the base of the MGs so the mice can't get to them to chew them. That is what I was trying to create with these planters.