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These pests can be scary and cause extensive damage to your crops. To keep them away, you do not necessarily need to call a rat control service. You can also do without chemicals and use natural products. There is a great bet you will save your plants with these scents of the garden.
Rats can ravage your crops and be real pests in your home. You can keep them away from your home with repellent house scents. So you'll do without chemicals that are bad for your health.
Although rats can live anywhere, gardens are one of their favorite spaces. It's where they have food nearby and many safe hiding places where no one can find it. Although it may seem that a rat in the garden is not as dangerous as it is inside the house, the risk remains the same.
Rats in the garden can cause serious damage to our plants, but the most important thing is that rats are disease transmitters and their presence nearby can be a danger to us and our pets. In addition, these rodents reproduce very easily, so if you don’t remove rats quickly from your garden, a proliferation will occur and it will be more difficult to keep these rodents away.
Natural scents to chase rats out of your garden
The clover
Clover may be a good luck charm for some, but this is not the case for rats. Their strong smell will send them in the opposite direction. Not to waste anything, this plant is easy to grow.
To chase the rodents, you must lay the clover in an area where you want to keep them away.
However, this solution can take time to take effect and the plants will have to be changed every three days.
Garlic and onions
The repellent property of garlic is linked to its high fragrance from allicin. As for onions, their power against the presence of rats is due to sulphur compounds.
To hunt rodents, you will have to place whole garlic cloves around the places frequented by these pests or spray a mixture of garlic and onion in the key areas.
To do this, bring four cups of water to the boil and then add one chopped onion and two to four garlic cloves.
Reduce the heat and simmer for five minutes. Then turn off the fire and let the mixture cool completely.
Once cooled, filter the mixture and place the remaining water in a vial with a spray.
Coffee grounds
The bitter flavor of hot-fused coffee grounds combined with its powerful fragrance is formidable for repeling rats. The experts explain, "If you need to push rats back from your garden, you can just throw coffee grounds straight into the garden." “It’s ideal for composting, so it’s powerful to fertilize your garden in addition to repel pests like rats. ”
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