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["Lynda" <lurine AT softcom.net>]

What do you do to keep out the voles?  I think we may have a visitor to one 
of our lasagna beds.  Whomever/whatever has done any damage yet but we have 
a couple of piles of thrust up earth and I don't want to wait until they do 
some damage.

Lynda
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bill Jones" <billj AT harborside.com>


> A few years ago I decided that with tap root crops, I would only eat
> organic ones, since rust fly pesticides actually flood the roots.
> Unfortunately here we only recently got farmers markets going, and there
> just aren't many local produce growers of any kind.  Since they're
> wanting a fairly large fee from the farmers to set up a booth, it's
> poorly attended.  Picture the kettle corn guy, some fruit people, and
> the gal selling sourdough.  And it's 35 miles away.  There's also
> another co-op in the city that's always had better o-carrots.  But for
> an o-carrot for lunch out here in the sticks, the local co-op is still
> the closest option.  I finally just gave up carrots, back before I had
> put in the new beds that enable me to grow them without vole predation.
>
> Bill
> S. Oregon coast
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