Comments on: Taking mint-sing steps

By: Leslie

Leslie — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 20:33:16 +0000

I have a yard, not a lawn, so I’m planting mint! As long as it doesn’t overtake the periwinkle I’ll be ok with it. I figure if it will keep rats away it might deter those pesky field mice and maybe some squirrels and chipmunks. Thanks for the hint!

By: Carol

Carol — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 17:05:45 +0000

Mint, eh? I’ve not had a rat problem, but I love it when I hear about another way to repel critters that is non toxic.

By: Toni Smoky-Mountains

Toni Smoky-Mountains — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 10:36:06 +0000

Mint…hooray! You go!
I love my mint plants.
Several years ago, unbeknown st to me, I was feeding a family of rats with my bird feeder, too, and one wily devil-of-a-rat climbed up the ivy on the house to a window, gnawed through the screen and got caught between the glass and screen. Imagine my surprise. It was like a horror movie at my window.

By: Ruth

Ruth — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 20:28:13 +0000

Okay, now I’m really, really glad that I have a huge mint plant near the dog door. Maybe that’s why we’ve never had one ‘break and enter’ yet!

By: Don Meyer

Don Meyer — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 18:19:55 +0000

Zat wrat bay thur lie kon foosed bay de meent. Gaad fer u.

odder fon teem:

A young couple were married, even though she said she didn’t know how to cook. “But I’ll try to learn; really I will,” she promised. So she read cookbooks, and got help from her mother and friends. She would serve a meal to her husband, who would say, “Not bad, but not like mother used to make.” And she would try another recipe, and he would say, “Not bad, but not like mother used to make.” Then one morning everything went wrong — the coffee boiled over, she dropped the glass of orange juice, the eggs were underdone, and the toast was burnt. But she set it down in front of her husband anyway, who took one bite and said, “Ah, just like mother used to make!”

By: Sandra

Sandra — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 16:50:46 +0000

off to buy some mint containers for the cottage. Gotta get the mice to find a new home…

By: AlisonH

AlisonH — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 16:44:31 +0000

Sending two New Joyzy guys to do a whack job on the mint plants–Afton, that’s *funny*!

By: sherry in idaho

sherry in idaho — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 14:49:05 +0000

Hm, wonder if mint works for mice. Not that we have had any yet but I may hang some in the basement, just in case. Didn’t the old-timers hang something from their rafters to keep ?? away? AARRGGHH, a rat–I still remember the first wharf rat I saw in Washington.

By: TripletMom

TripletMom — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 13:53:34 +0000

Very interesting, my mom planted mint to keep ants out of the house years ago (they won’t cross it either), but I had never heard that it would keep rats away too. I’ll have to pass your tip on to her. They put out bird feeders last year:)

By: Channon

Channon — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 13:24:38 +0000

Wonderful! All the more reason to plant some mint along the edge of the house. I’ve not seen a rat, but I’d like to keep it that way.