MOLE CITY HELP!

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SueGee1950 Annapolis, MD Aug 29, 2007

My entire garden is tranversed with soft mole/vole (?) tunnels. Everything is near dead. Squash left on ground getting eaten on underside. Any advice for next year?

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LTilton Glen Ellyn, IL(Zone 5b) Aug 29, 2007

Get a cat. They love to hunt voles.

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tigpie Kernville, CA Aug 29, 2007

I am in gopher city, and there is no way that I could have a garden without laying down hardware cloth beneath the soil. It is metal squares 1/4 ". I get 50' x 3' roll for $60.00.

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msrobin Caneyville, KY(Zone 6b) Aug 30, 2007

Sue, Don't wait till next year!

1. Poison peanuts from garden centers or feed stores.

2. $-store pinwheels seem to help in the garden.

3. Castor oil with water sprayed around garden edges is suppose to help.

4. Keep stamping down tunnels...frustrates them and they move on.

Good luck!

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carrieebryan Midland, WA(Zone 8a) Sep 13, 2007

Moles don't eat plants. They eat Japanese beetle slugs. They do tunnel underground (after all, that's where their food is!) and throw little mounds of dirt up here and there.

Voles don't tunnel underground. They tunnel through long grass. They like to snack on the vegetables.

I grow roses, so I don't do much about the moles; I just watch my step and remember that I may sink rapidly, occasionally, as I unexpectedly flatten a tunnel. I water the dirt mounds and sow clover and grass seed on them. Also, mole tunnels make the soil very soft, perfect for digging holes to plant shrubs!

I keep the voles away by keeping my back yard mowed.

Your culprits may include rabbits and squirrels.

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Farmerdill Augusta, GA(Zone 8a) Sep 13, 2007

Depends on the type of voles. We have pine voles which tunnel. Maryland has both pine voles and meadow voles, both of which can do a number on plants. Pine voles love roots but also like to come up under things like cantaloupes and eat them from the bottom. The pine vole hates clay soils and loves mulch. http://www.uri.edu/ce/factsheets/sheets/voles.html

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