permaculture

[Dieter Brand <diebrand@yahoo.com>]

Hi,
   
  Does anybody know whether urine is effective for
  repelling voles? Voles are supposed to have a very
  sensitive sense of smell and seem to avoid anything
  with a human odour on it.
   
  At what ratio is urine diluted when used in the garden?
  Is it used immediately or do I a let it sit for a while?
  For how long is the repellent effect likely to last, if 
  there is one?
   
  This is rather urgent, the buggers finish off one 
  salad after the other before I get a chance to harvest
  any. In the summer they destroyed almost all of my
  sweet potatoes. I bought 10 sweet potatoes to grow 
  more than 100 seedlings. When I harvested last week, 
  all I got was 5 sweet potatoes.  At this rate I might 
  as well give up or use poison.
   
  Dieter Brand
  Portugal
   
  PS:  I use no-till with mulch, which doesn't help in
  detecting the voles.
   

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