Vole prevention

[saddlebronze]

Any ideas on how to keep voles from attacking my vines. I am planting in an area where I have lost roses barberry and pussywillow to those suckers. Mthey eat all the roots and kill the plants

 

[grapeman]

Try putting moth balls around the holes. The Naphthalene drives them away. Caution: they may be toxic to animals that eat them.

 

[DoctorCAD]

Get a bunch of cats. Vols...the other white meat.

 

[Runningwolf]

I hate those little b@st@rds and the mole also. I have problems with them in my yard and gardens.

 

[grapeman]

Our cats won't touch the voles. I guess they taste bad.

 

[saddlebronze]

I am surrounding the test plot with a railroad tie wall. Hopefully it will slow them down.

 

[Ernest T Bass]

I wonder if this would work. Make a wire basket out of 1/4 inch machine cloth, the sides to come up about an inch or two above ground. Plant your vine in this basket, the roots of the vine could get thru the 1/4 wire mesh, but the voles and moles couldn't. Just a thought?
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