peas n paraffin

[slabbit]

i,m still new at growin fruit n veg so i listen to all the seasond growers at our lottie,s but one feller says with a wink and tapping his nose "dip yer peas in paraffin before plantin mice won,t get em" and the feller next door says " naw don,t do that it aint organic" and i suppose it isnt but do folk do this "dipping"

[kernowyon]

Easier to start them off in pots if you are worried about mice, I lost a whole row bar three plants a couple of years ago. last year I planted six or so peas to 3" pots, then when they got about four inches tall i just planted the whole load so each planting 'station' had about six healthy plants spaced about 6 or 7 inches apart.
'twas the best row of peas I have ever grown.

[pipscariad]

I have loads of mice at my veg plot, but didn't fancy the idea of dipping the peas in paraffin one bit! (Yep, I was told that too by at least two people.) What I did was to sow the peas into cardboard loo roll pots, then plant them out instead - it worked really well. Good luck!

[pipscariad]

Oops, beaten to it by my slow typing!

[jacob marley]

There's a chap on our site that do's the parafin job on pea's but parafin is getting dear saw some in Dobbie's @£7.99p for 4 litre's..jacob

[Two_Sheds]

I sow into loo rolls, then plant these out. It works for me (although the sparrows will have a peck at them in early spring when they fancy a bit of greenery)

[bluemoon]

I just sprout them on damp kitchen paper for a few days, then sow direct as normal. The reason you have to constantly rinse things such as mung beans which you sprout to eat is that a germinating seed produces a foul taste in order to deter bird and rodent attack. If you get them to the sprouted stage before you sow them (but don't rinse) then you already have nature's rodent deterrent working for you. I went from 98% failure to 98% success using this method. It works for beans and sweetcorn too.

[Flummery]

I wouldn't put parrafin on anything I'm going to eat - even on the bits of it that I don't eat, if you get me drift.