Market Farming

["Brian and Jacqueline Potzkai" <potzkai AT hotmail.com>]

> From: "Nancy Haycock" <nhaycock AT dmcom.net>
> Subject: [market-farming] vole damage
does anyone have any ideas for how to control the damage??


Hi Nancy, we have quite a problem with mice, rats, golphers and marmots.  
They especially liked to tunnel under the black plastic that was out in the 
field.  When we removed the plastic and rototilled we eliminated a good 
portion of the problem.  (They went to the undisturbed field above our 
garden).  We still have the mice in the field but to a lesser extent.  Areas 
where weeds are heavier also have several mounds of dirt where they have 
made a home sweet home.  Elimination of the weed gets rid of the problem.  
They especially liked our onions last year, one day walking through the 
onion patch I noticed that for a good length of one row the onion leaves 
were buried deeply in the ground so I pulled one out - no bulb, another - 
same thing, got a shovel and found a rodent tunnel.  You can look into a bit 
of info at   www.ipm.ucdavis.edu/PMG/PESTNOTES/pn7439.html#MANAGEMENT   - 
good luck, Jacqueline
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