[Market-farming] Winter Greenhouse varieties for Indiana?
Robin Follette
lists at seasonseatingsfarm.com
Thu Feb 28 21:45:48 EST 2008
I answered once but the message was rejected for being too big. Don't
forget to cut out all the extra so that messages are less than 20k.
I have a bale of straw in my greenhouse. The voles hide under the bale. I
pick up the bale and stomp on the voles. It's not pleasant but they've done
a lot of damage to my baby spinach and lettuce. I kill as many voles under
that bale as I catch in snap traps. Last week I let one of the dogs in to
catch them when I lifted the bale. He couldn't do any more damage with his
big feet than they were doing to my greens. He was in and out in a minute
with the first vole. I have three dogs that spend a lot of time listening
for critters in tunnels in the snow then digging them up for a snack.
They're a big help.
Eliot has bottomless wooden boxes. There's a mouse hole in one side. He
sets unbaited snap traps under the box. The voles go in because it smells
familiar after other voles having been there already. They'll bump into the
snap trap while they're in there. He also does the "meadow vole stomp" and
it's hilarious to watch him do it in a workshop.
Robin Follette
Seasons Eatings Farm
Talmadge, ME
www.seasonseatingsfarm.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Sharon and Steve" <shopkins at tdstelme.net>
To: "Market Farming" <market-farming at lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2008 8:01 PM
Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Winter Greenhouse varieties for Indiana?
> Robin,
>
> Somewhere back a while I read a piece by or about Eliot and voles, it
> seems
> that they almost ended his winter greens project till he got them under
> control. Do you recall what it was that he did?
>
> MAsteveINE (trailing GOSpigs in Bangor!)
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