RE: weekend disaster.. need advice on Voles
- To: "'hosta-open@mallorn.com'"
- Subject: RE: weekend disaster.. need advice on Voles
- From: D* B* W*
- Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2000 19:42:19 -0400
I use the basket approach with success - using 1/2" hardware cloth. You
can get this wire from Lowe's or Home Depot in rolls. I cut the screen
into pieces about 8" wide by 24" long, and put them in when planting. I
have not seen any evidence of voles getting across the 1" screen that is
above ground.
Some people also use sharp pieces of granite chips in the soil mix when
planting - voles don't like to bump the sharp points with tender noses.
Both of these methods, however, require digging the plant up and
replanting. Planting in the screens can be troublesome if the plant is
leafed out and has any real size - confining and there will always be sharp
points.
Dan
North Alabama
-----Original Message-----
From: HoroRL@aol.com [SMTP:HoroRL@aol.com]
Sent: Monday, April 03, 2000 11:33 AM
To: hosta-open@mallorn.com
Subject: Re: weekend disaster.. need advice on Voles
In a message dated 4/3/00 10:56:11 Eastern Daylight Time, NardaA@aol.com
writes:
<< In a message dated 4/3/00 9:58:35 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
sunkat@excite.com
I can suggest two things to deter the rotten vermin:
1. Plant the hosta in plastic pots with the bottoms cut off. Plant the
pots
about an 1" above your mulch; so that the voles won't be bothered.
2. Plant the hosta in chicken wire baskets that you make. Plant the pots
about an 1" above your mulch.
No chemicals, poisons, etc.. You could still caster oil and pour it around
the circumference of the hosta crowns, too.
Hostally,
Rich Horowitz
Stoughton MA
z5
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