Follow this easy five-minute hack to keep rats away from your home and garden

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Rats are known for causing chaos in peoples home and gardens, especially during the summer months. Their gluttonous need for food and their burrow-digging antics infuriate home owners.

The pests are notorious for damaging plants and leaving their waste behind, which has huge potential to spread diseases. Because of this people are often tempted to set traps or leave poison to stop the rats in their tracks, but this can end up harming other wildlife.Maia Brown was struggling to find a way to keep the rodents out of her garden so reached out to the Gardening Hints and Tips Facebook group to ask for help.She wrote: "Rats!

We've got a rat/rats visiting our garden - we see it most days. It's not nesting in or under my little shed, there's no food source in the garden and I stopped feeding the birds several weeks ago."Adding her worries, she said: "I'm a bit nervous now about going into the garden but my main concern is for my dog and grandchild.

Does anyone know how I can deter this rat from coming into the garden? Thanks." The responses from forum members was to use peppermint – either oil or plants – to fend off the pests, reports the Express.