market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: Market Farming
List archive
- From: "waldenfarm" <waldenfarm AT bellsouth.net>
- To: "Market Farming" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
- Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Vole Salad Bar
- Date: Sun, 28 Feb 2010 11:01:57 -0500
Greetings from Vole Acres. I've been
trying to reduce the number of voles here for years without using poisons- don't
want sick & dying voles to get eaten by black snakes, hawks &
owls. I think we've reached some kind of ecological balance.
The idea for "vole proof" benches is a
good one and sounds easy & cheap. To exclude them from the green
house, Dig a trench around the perimeter and bury a U-shaped piece of 1/4"
hardware cloth- 6" deep by 6" wide. This will stop new ones from burrowing in.
You'll have to kill the ones already in residence. Or, run them out by "smoking
the burrows before trenching.
I also use square baskets made of hardware
cloth to plant bulbs in flower beds. Voles love tulips a hyacinths. But they
don't eat daffodils, thank goodness!
Good luck in the vole wars, and may the
force be with you.
Alex McGregor
Walden Farm
Waldens Ridge, TN
|
-
[Market-farming] wheatgrass,
Beth Spaugh, 02/27/2010
-
Re: [Market-farming] wheatgrass,
Allan.Balliett, 02/27/2010
-
[Market-farming] Vole Salad Bar,
Maggie Palmer, 02/27/2010
-
Re: [Market-farming] Vole Salad Bar,
Richard Robinson, 02/27/2010
-
Re: [Market-farming] Vole Salad Bar,
Shawnee Flowerfarmer, 02/27/2010
- Re: [Market-farming] Vole Salad Bar, waldenfarm, 02/28/2010
-
Re: [Market-farming] Vole Salad Bar,
Shawnee Flowerfarmer, 02/27/2010
- Re: [Market-farming] Vole Salad Bar, MAsteveINE, 02/27/2010
-
Re: [Market-farming] Vole Salad Bar,
Richard Robinson, 02/27/2010
- Re: [Market-farming] wheatgrass, Beth Spaugh, 02/27/2010
-
[Market-farming] Vole Salad Bar,
Maggie Palmer, 02/27/2010
- Re: [Market-farming] wheatgrass, Allan.Balliett, 02/27/2010
- Re: [Market-farming] wheatgrass, Clark Furlong, 02/27/2010
- <Possible follow-up(s)>
-
Re: [Market-farming] wheatgrass,
clearviewfarm, 02/27/2010
-
Re: [Market-farming] wheatgrass,
BarbaraJ, 02/28/2010
- Re: [Market-farming] wheatgrass, Margaret L. Wilson, 02/28/2010
-
Re: [Market-farming] wheatgrass,
BarbaraJ, 02/28/2010
-
Re: [Market-farming] wheatgrass,
Allan.Balliett, 02/27/2010
Archive powered by MHonArc 2.6.24.