Keeping mice and rats out of storage sheds

I have little ground squirrels that look like chipmunks that get into everything!  Antelope squirrels.

I had to build a bunker garden.  Dug down two feet and surrounded it with metal siding.  They still dug under that!  So I dug out all of the garden dirt and put metal wire mesh under the entire thing.  Waiting to see how that works!

I have found that mice and chipmunks can't climb through lemon grass.  I think it is too sharp.  In Arizona lemon grass will survive and thrive in intense heat.  I am starting a lemon grass boundary around my larger garden area to see if this will deter them.

It is a constant battle!  

No more rats this month. I think he was just a hiding straggler. I think it's fixed now.
John S
PDX OR

Cole Tyler wrote:In summary, yes I basically live in a storage shed.

i feel you and this is the vibe homesteading no matter how nice you make it your practically camping we pretty much spend most our time outside excepot for winter so its all about survival & comfort not aesthetics.

on the subject of mice, there is a reason there are conspiracies that believe they are controlling us because they are so darn opportunistic its incredible of all the animals out here in the forest there are somewhere at the top of the food chain lol

human traps become even less humane that regular traps, glue traps should be illegal and i think if your going to resort to any kind of bb gun just usa a regular trap because they work 100% of the time, kill instantly 90% of the time and you wont be spreading blood and guts on your countertops!

our mice are beautiful field mic but they belong outside, in the kitchen its war.

In the garden I get they coming and eating the fresh tops of the seeds when they are sprouting and i really am at a loss for what to do except clean and remove things fro they to take cover under around the garden. I have my seed shed secured and yes honestly you dont want any question about possible gaps because one a mouse gains access and spread it around more mice with come and then snakes and coyotes advertising to the other animals, I had a bear just straight run off with a whole trash can of chicken feed so yeah that is locked down like fort knox.