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Re: Voles in the garden

I agree with the cat solution but the cat has to be a 'mouser' or it'll be useless.  We used to loose thousands of dollars worth of perennials in the nursery every winter due to vole damage...they'd widen the drainage holes at the bottom of the pots, tunnel up to the root, pull it out and drag it home for dinner.  OH...voles are one of the few rodents that reproduce all year long.  Poison baits seem useless, mulches and leaf litter are their favorite highways.  Old fashioned wooden mouse traps baited with small pieces of apple seemed to work best but the traps must be placed where the voles travel as they know better than to be out in the open.  Owls, haws and foxes love them.
 

Andrew Messinger
The Hampton Gardener
The Hampton Gardener is a Registered Trade Mark
(Published every Thursday in the Southampton Press)



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