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  • From: Sarah <sarah52blue@yahoo.com>
  • To: permaculture <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [permaculture] Urine against voles?
  • Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2007 14:50:19 -0800 (PST)

Hello:
I have not had any good results versus voles with urine. However, I have
discovered that peppermint essential oil works very well. I put a few drops
(its very potent stuff) on cotton balls and scatter them where the voles are
eating and they quit. Also repels mice in buildings.

Best regards,

Sarah

Dieter Brand <diebrand@yahoo.com> wrote:
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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