Subject: Re: voles and bulbs
ds429 (Mon, 17 Jul 2017 13:57:15 PDT)

I am not sure if this is correct, but I use a castor oil product (Scoot-Mole) which is designed to repel moles, but I think it also deters voles. At least, I see little bulb loss when I remember to apply it (autumn and spring) than when I forget. There are lots of cats in the neighborhood but rarely any snakes (alas).

Dell
in Salem, WV
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On Mon, 7/17/17, Mark Mazer <markemazer@gmail.com> wrote:

Subject: Re: [pbs] Subject: Re: voles and bulbs
To: "Pacific Bulb Society" <pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net>
Date: Monday, July 17, 2017, 2:57 PM

infestation, then, is “Get some snakes”.<

Yup.  When the rat snake
population here is healthy, we have very few
problems with voles and mice in the greenhouse
or garden. We sometimes
collect them from
the neighbors that complain when the snakes are hanging
out.  At rest, their zig-zag shape is
instantly ID'able.

Mark
Mazer
Hertford, NC

Rainlilies and Crinums blooming here these
days.

On Mon, Jul 17, 2017 at 11:35 AM, penstemon
<penstemon@q.com>
wrote:

to get cats, as I have bird baths throughout the garden and
am

could encourage weasels to live nearby?

They are tremendous hunters, if only they would hunt in my
garden.

entrances to their tunnels, will make them

used to be infested with voles but not any more. I

collies, who loathe having voles in

their yard and, when young and active, dispatch them very
efficiently, and

large number of predators here. Owls, hawks, and a

garter snakes, but big snakes (over a

meter long) like racers and bullsnakes.

My standard answer to vole infestation, then, is “Get some
snakes”.

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