Any advice on how to deal with Voles damaging a garden of rare plants and
trees, plot by methodical plot?

Wish I could, because you are a Dukie, but the only advice I have is to try to drop moth balls into their burrow openings...if you can find them! Sorry...wish I could add more...

you can get those whirlygig ground thumpers...they vibrate the ground so the
voles leave...

you can vole poison/traps although most vole tunnels are underground unlike
moles

I can loan you my cat she is a great vole hunter and mole hunter too...

Tomatolord


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Any advice on how to deal with Voles damaging a garden of rare plants and
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In article , Tomatolord wrote:
I can loan you my cat she is a great vole hunter and mole hunter too...

I can second the cat idea. Our big cat does a pretty good job for us and our
neighbors. Now, if I could just figure out how to get him to lose weight
when he catches his own food.

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Any advice on how to deal with Voles damaging a garden of rare plants and
trees, plot by methodical plot?


Permatill, mousetraps and (as a last resort) mouse/rat poison. Are you
sure it is voles and not rabbits?


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In article , Tomatolord wrote:
you can get those whirlygig ground thumpers...they vibrate the ground so the
voles leave...

you can vole poison/traps although most vole tunnels are underground unlike
moles


Voles will use mole tunnels if available, so if you see holes or
tunnels be sure to set the traps nearby. I cover with a bucket, placing
a short piece of 1x2 under one edge and a brick on top. Bait with a
peanut half smeared with a bit of peanut butter.

I can loan you my cat she is a great vole hunter and mole hunter too...

Tomatolord


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Rozol pellets. They eat it, they die. Be sure the pellets are down in
the vole holes, so other critters don't snack on them. You may have to
do a little raking to find the quarter-sized holes.
Only thing I have found that actually works. And you have to do it
couple times a summer since the little buggers multiply
like.....voles.

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Any advice on how to deal with Voles damaging a garden of rare plants and
trees, plot by methodical plot?

Rozol pellets. They eat it, they die. Be sure the pellets are down in
the vole holes, so other critters don't snack on them. You may have to
do a little raking to find the quarter-sized holes.
Only thing I have found that actually works. And you have to do it
couple times a summer since the little buggers multiply
like.....voles.

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Any advice on how to deal with Voles damaging a garden of rare plants and
trees, plot by methodical plot?

http://www.pestproducts.com/mole_out.htm
http://www.critter-repellent.com/vole_repellent.htm


Try using something like these.
I personally can't kill any little animals and don't want dead poisoned
animals under the ground becoming my fertilizer. Clean up and smell are also
an issue unless you plan on being out there every day to dig up the wholes
where they have died.
There are many natural ways to remove them without causing damage to your
lawn or garden or taking a chance on poisoning yourself, children, pets or
the water supply in the area.
I have heard about some plants being a natural deterrent as well. I can't
remember which ones.
I hope you find this useful.


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Any advice on how to deal with Voles damaging a garden of rare plants and
trees, plot by methodical plot?

In article , Buffy wrote:
http://www.pestproducts.com/mole_out.htm
http://www.critter-repellent.com/vole_repellent.htm


Try using something like these.
I personally can't kill any little animals and don't want dead poisoned
animals under the ground becoming my fertilizer. Clean up and smell are also
an issue unless you plan on being out there every day to dig up the wholes
where they have died.

YOu have a better chance of finding Jimmy Hoffa in your back yard than a
dead vole underground. Chuckle.

There are many natural ways to remove them without causing damage to your
lawn or garden or taking a chance on poisoning yourself, children, pets or
the water supply in the area.

Most (if not all) the current poisons are anti-coagulants and in
quantities to kill mice not people. My father takes coumadin every day
it used to be the primary poison but was renamed Wafarin back then. Now
they have others that mice and rats have not developed a resistance to.

Things are dying everyday. Ever
see those mashed squirrels on the road? No epidemics from them and no
harm from a vole decomposing in the ground.

Those repellants have to be continuously reapplied. Now the safest and
probably cheapest is a mousetrap, a bucket and a brick. Just put the
little body in the garbage can.

I have heard about some plants being a natural deterrent as well. I can't
remember which ones.
I hope you find this useful.



Funny yes. Useful no.


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It might be usefull if they are like me and not wanting to take a life if
they don't have to.
For me, I don't put a price on any living thing, but that is just me.
I was only offering an alternative to death or poisons that for some people
are safe, but for others are not.


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In article , Buffy wrote:
http://www.pestproducts.com/mole_out.htm
http://www.critter-repellent.com/vole_repellent.htm


Try using something like these.
I personally can't kill any little animals and don't want dead poisoned
animals under the ground becoming my fertilizer. Clean up and smell are
also
an issue unless you plan on being out there every day to dig up the
wholes
where they have died.

YOu have a better chance of finding Jimmy Hoffa in your back yard than a
dead vole underground. Chuckle.

There are many natural ways to remove them without causing damage to
your
lawn or garden or taking a chance on poisoning yourself, children, pets
or
the water supply in the area.

Most (if not all) the current poisons are anti-coagulants and in
quantities to kill mice not people. My father takes coumadin every day
it used to be the primary poison but was renamed Wafarin back then. Now
they have others that mice and rats have not developed a resistance to.

Things are dying everyday. Ever
see those mashed squirrels on the road? No epidemics from them and no
harm from a vole decomposing in the ground.

Those repellants have to be continuously reapplied. Now the safest and
probably cheapest is a mousetrap, a bucket and a brick. Just put the
little body in the garbage can.

I have heard about some plants being a natural deterrent as well. I
can't
remember which ones.
I hope you find this useful.



Funny yes. Useful no.


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