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["Wendy" <crazygardens AT verizon.net>]

Lynda,
I have found that anywhere I plant marigolds NOTHING bothers.  No voles, no 
bunnies, no deer.  If I plant green beans without marigolds, nothing will 
survive.  Something will always crop them to the ground before the beans 
even come on.  Same with green peppers.  Without marigolds I find vole 
diggings throughout.  With, not a one.  I buy marigold plants already 
started for this because I want the plants up before the beans do.  If you 
have facilities to start them yourself, it would be a big money saver.  I 
grow in raised beds.  I plant the dwarf marigolds about every foot around 
the edge and a row of giants about every two feet down the middle.  Looks 
cool too.

Wendy


> 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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