Re: vole damage pics

Best way to reduce vole damage is to reduce their numbers during the year. I
use two snap-traps under a large plastic tub set along a wall in my garden.
Only voles and mice can get in. I bait the traps with peanut butter coated
with bird seed and set them against the wall. Last year I caught a total of
74 voles and mice. The previous year numbers were a little lower. I seldom
have any vole damage now but I wish they made similar traps for rabbits.

Dan in PA

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kitty" <kmrsy@comcast.net>
To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
Sent: Sunday, February 29, 2004 8:13 PM
Subject: Re: [CHAT] vole damage pics


> yikes is right.  It's too early though for me to lift the straw covering
the
> Hosta babies and do anything with them.  It may have been 55 today, but
only
> 40s for high later and can easily go back to teens for highs.  March is
like
> that around here.
> Kitty
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Marge Talt" <mtalt@hort.net>
> To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
> Sent: Sunday, February 29, 2004 7:26 PM
> Subject: Re: [CHAT] vole damage pics
>
>
> > Yikes, Kitty, they were having fun in your garden this winter!  I
> > know I have similar under the leaves out in the woodland garden; have
> > seen some signs of surface tunnels.  Hope they didn't hit your hosta
> > babies but if you've got voles, they will find them.  They chewed the
> > roots off half a dozen large clumps for me last year as well as a
> > rather large Aralia cordata.  Finally just dug them all up and
> > planted them in  5 gal. nursery pots with the bottoms off; sunk in
> > the ground with bottom filled with 3/4" driveway gravel and top of
> > pot about 3" out of the ground.  I'm hoping that will foil the little
> > beggars.  No telling what they did under the snow we had, but so far
> > the pots look OK.
> >
> > Marge Talt, zone 7 Maryland
> > mtalt@hort.net
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> > > From: Kitty <kmrsy@comcast.net>
> > > Hard to tell yet about plant damage.  I'm concerned about damage to
> > a bed of
> > > 100 baby hostas.  That's where the red-arrow-marked trail led to.
> > Of course
> > > the hosta aren't up yet and the bed has straw cover so it may be
> > awhile
> > > before I know.  The main visible damage so far is the grass.
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