Re: Orange Echinaceas-voles and woodchucks

> Last year was my worst year for vole damage, even at home in the middle of
a
> residential neighborhood they got me good.  Consumed about 100 lily bulbs
in
> the ground in the middle of the winter.  Took out by dogwood by girdling
the
> stems and roots.
> Got 70 percent of my large clump of Coreopsis (was three feet by seven
feet).
>
> Took out completely two large stands of Northern Sea oats grass too.
>
> Won't even speak about the hideous things they did to my Astilbe.  I fixed
> them, I hope this year, they have consumed over $100 worth of "The special
green
> pelleted food">
>
Hi, Paul, I do hope you have cut down on the hungry little critters but do
you have raccoons that like the poison too?   We had to quit using anything
since between both of them they were killing more of my plants.  I like to
co-exist with the woodland animals but I think large built-up of any one
animal is unnatural.  I keep waiting for the epidemic of vole bugs but that
is the only bug not to show up at my garden.  They ate every glad, canna,
crocosmia, and who knows what else last winter.  Some one told me that at
least my soil was well aereated.  That is a small consolation but I could
stick a trowel in my meadow soil and actually dig a hole.
I thought I knew everything the voles would eat but you have added more to
the list.
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