[Homestead] Moles
Bill Jones
billj at harborside.com
Fri Feb 8 20:19:06 EST 2008
Gene GeRue wrote:
>I sometimes think that one should just bite the bullet and built a
>fortress wall around the garden, like the Nearings, with a concrete
>foundation below where any mole, vole, gopher, rabbit or groundhog
>would dig
>
i've wondered about that. how deep was it?
explosions underground are pretty effective. there's even a system they
sell for doing it, with the igniter and all. we watched the demo video.
but still... the guy's pants caught fire in one of the demos
gassing with flares and such i'm not confident of, because hot gas won't
reach any portion of the tunnel system that's lower than the point of
injection. my hamster was very skilled at avoiding the smoke from the
power hitter (the things teenagers do) just by seeking the lowest point
in the cage. even if they could be trapped that way, why couldn't they
quickly block up the tunnel?
at the Cob Village back in Coos County, where they're serious about
sustainable agriculture, i asked Ianto how they had solved the vole
problem. he said they had acquired two male kittens and actually trained
them with some live mice to live on small animals.
Bill
S. Oregon coast
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