Re: A Timetable for Hosta Care
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- Subject: Re: A Timetable for Hosta Care
- From: K* A*
- Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2000 19:50:07 -0600
- References: <ce.1e45345.25e3cb62@aol.com>
Try Mixing the Garlic with some Cayenne Pepper Narda... I usually buy
Cayenne in bulk... seems to deter the puds (groundhogs), peters (rabbits),
and Bambi's....
Kate
----- Original Message -----
From: <NardaA@aol.com>
To: <hosta-open@mallorn.com>
Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2000 5:22 AM
Subject: Re: A Timetable for Hosta Care
| In a message dated 2/22/00 12:27:21 AM Eastern Standard Time,
| sussextreeinc@ce.net writes:
|
| << Narda,
| I have no idea what a little garlic powder would do for vole control.
| Maybe the mix of garlic, fish emulsion and alfalfa would give the voles
| such bad breath that reproduction would come to a stand still ;-)
| >>
|
| Dan, we do not have voles here, that doesn't mean that we couldn't get
them.
| I have seen voles at other school land lab sites and I know what the
damage
| looks like. I occasionally put down some blue pellets in the runs under
| rocks but haven't seen much activity on that. We do have shrews, which
are
| like moles in what they are after and that is grubs, worms, and big
insects.
| Also I understand that voles and shrews are natural enemies, so as long as
I
| have shrews then voles are not as big a problem on the horizon.
|
| My major problem is the long eared cute and cuddly kind, the vermin called
| rabbits. Some of the new repellents are garlic based, and quite frankly I
am
| going to try everything this spring, Jane Milhorn's liquid fnece, garlic,
.22
| rifle, clubs, rocks whatever I can come up with.
|
| Narda
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