Re: voles and lilies
- Subject: Re: voles and lilies
- From: E*@aol.com
- Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2001 00:06:42 EDT
In a message dated 6/19/01 5:30:04 PM Eastern Daylight Time, robyn@icx.net
writes:
<< I too have voles and want all the plants they love. So I have been
planting in large plastic pots without a bottom. They seem to come to
the hard plastic and go around. So far. I still have the hostas and
lilies and evergreen hollies to show for the work. A hundred years from
now someone will wonder what all those black plastic pots are doing on
the mountain side.
Nancy Robinson east Tennessee zone 6b home of the fatest, sleakest
voles in the country. >>
Nancy
I think that the garden provides an unnatural amount of food for the voles,
increasing their populations. If we did not garden the mice and voles would
need to forage on their own with their populations not concentrated near
garden beds and be fewer in number.
Quite a few people plant edibles in black nursery pots but I have found them
too difficult to site amongst the underground rock.
My cat does not like voles. She has little interest in hunting voles and
leaves them dead on the driveway if she does catch one. In hosta beds where
there are many plants, you can put mouse bait into a mayonaise jar or a
length of PVC pipe (to protect birds and cats) and this cuts down on the
numbers.
It is always something!
Claire Peplowski
NYS z4
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