voles (was leaf damage)
- Subject: [sibrob] voles (was leaf damage)
- From: Ellen Gallagher e*@yahoo.com
- Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2002 07:13:42 -0700 (PDT)
--- Robert Dickow <dickow@uidaho.edu> wrote:
>>> I just gave my vole-infested friend a piece of spuria
rhizome, thinking they would be more resistent to vole damage
than, say, tall bearded rhizomes. She reported that they tunnel
into the TB rhizomes in her garden. I figure that the more
tough, fibrous, and dense underground spuria iris rhizome might
be more distasteful to voles. Might anyone corroborate this
notion? <<<
Hi - I don't grow spurias(except the little species I. graminea)
but re voles and things distasteful to them - I plant daffodils
which _seem_ to be a deterrent. I still see a few of the little
mole tunnels but no sign of vole damage.
Voles can be a huge problem around here and I think they are
worse in my garden then slugs....even around hosta. They tend to
leave my irises, lilium and peonies alone for the most part.
Anytime I see the leaf damage that Margaret described I plant a
daffodil which I love anyway. The 'smellier' the better is my
motto re daffodils. :-)
Ellen
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Ellen Gallagher <ellengalla@yahoo.com>
Berlin, NH/The Great North Woods/Zone 3
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