These pests can be scary and cause significant damage to your crops. To keep them away, you don’t necessarily need to call a pest control service. You can also skip the chemicals and use natural products. Chances are, you’ll save your plants with these garden scents!
Rats can ravage your crops and become a real nuisance in your home. You can keep them away from your home with repellent home scents. This way, you can avoid using chemicals that are harmful to your health.
Although rats can live anywhere, gardens are one of their favorite spaces. It’s where they have food nearby and plenty of safe hiding places where no one can find them. While it may seem like a rat in the garden isn’t as dangerous as one inside the house, the risk remains the same.
Rats in the garden can cause serious damage to our plants, but more importantly, rats are disease transmitters, and their presence nearby can be dangerous for us and our pets. In addition, these rodents reproduce very easily, so if you don’t eliminate rats from your garden quickly, an overgrowth will occur, making it more difficult to keep them away.
Natural scents to keep rats out of your garden
A rat in a garden – spm
The clover
Clover may be a lucky charm for some, but not for rats. Its strong odor will send them in the opposite direction. To top it all off, this plant is easy to grow.
To repel rodents, you need to place the clovers in an area where you want to keep them away.
However, this solution can take time to take effect and you will need to change the plants every three days.
Garlic and onions
Garlic’s repellent property is linked to its strong scent, which comes from allicin. As for onions, their power against the presence of rats is due to sulfur compounds.
To repel rodents, you will need to place whole garlic cloves around areas frequented by these pests or spray a mixture of garlic and onion in key areas.
To do this, bring four cups of water to a boil and then add one chopped onion and two to four cloves of garlic.
Reduce heat and simmer for five minutes. Then turn off the heat and let the mixture cool completely.
Once cooled, strain the mixture and place the remaining water in a bottle with a sprayer.
Coffee grounds
The bitter taste of hot brewed coffee grounds combined with their powerful aroma is a powerful rat repellent. Experts explain: “If you need to repel rats from your garden, you can simply throw coffee grounds directly into the garden. “It’s ideal for composting, so it’s powerful for fertilizing your garden in addition to repelling pests like rats.”
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