- Freshly milled pepper or chili pepper keeps mice away from your garage. Just sprinkle it around the mouse hole.
- Red elderberry also deters mice. Mice don’t like its smell. Put a good amount of dried elderberry flowers near their burrows.
One of the very effective and oldest means to get rid of mice and rats is Marsh Labrador tea or wild rosemary. The plant is poisonous, and due to its strong fragrance it is used in the household against bugs, moths, and mice. Lay sprigs with leaves and flowers near the burrows.