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Last year I posted a cry for help for a solution to voles eating our vegetables. I described our various attempts to alleviate the problem at [HYPERLINK@davesgarden.com] We had wonderful organic soil, our worm castings etc. The seedlings we started indoors were healthy and green. But days after they were planted in the garden they showed signs of stress. The tell-tale vole holes and tunnels started appearing and we were unable to trap them or control them with all of the suggestions and remedies we tried. At the end of the season we had many dead plants and a very limited amount of produce.
Last September we picked up a small, plastic mouse trap at a tag sale. We had tried others with no success, but Bingo! Our first success. We don't like trapping or killing anything, but compared to working all summer in our garden and watching it being eaten, we knew what we had to do. We bought two dozen of the same traps and have been using them all winter between snowfalls. We kept about 10 traps baited.
The traps we used are called "The Better Mousetrap" by Intruder at [HYPERLINK@www.intruderinc.com] . (We are not connected in any way to the company!). We dug a hole over the vole tunnels in many locations so that a tunnel exited into each hole. Then we set the trap with peanut butter and covered the hole with a flower pot. We caught 23 voles in our small garden. Now that the snow has melted we will start again and continue through planting season in hopes that we can eliminate the vole population inside the garden.
Voles can reproduce every month or two so we will need to keep this up until we have no more vole activity, but once we get them out we feel the garden is well protected to keep them out. Hope this helps others who may be as desperate as we have been and wish us luck this summer.
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