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  • From: Maria Schumann <mariaschu@vtlink.net>
  • To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] vole damage
  • Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2010 21:26:21 -0400

We use plastic tree guards, and they worked. A few blew off and those trees, like yours, were severely damaged or killed by voles and mice.

A question: Do berry bushes and shrubs also need rodent guards? We didn't protect ours last year and they did fine, but this year we're planting a lot more-- I'd hate to risk losing them. Last year I did plant daffodils and chives and garlic around my bush cherries -- has anyone else done this? Does it work? Also, we lost a couple of apple trees to what looks like root damage from rodents-- would the daffodils and allium work for that?

Maria Vermont zone 4/3


On Apr 22, 2010, at 3:31 PM, Ernest Plutko wrote:

The snow finally melted from the ditches. It is sort of warm in the
day but it is still frosting heavily during the night. Some of my
fruit trees look damaged from the winter but I don't know yet if they
are dead. The voles and mice caused a lot of bark damage under the
snow. I put mice poison when it first snowed last fall. The poison
blocks are gone but the trees were damaged anyway. I bought hardware
cloth today and will really protect the trees. I thought poison
would kill all the vermin. My electric fence protected the trees
from the other vermin: deer.

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