How are you all managing the varmints in your yard? I’ve lived in a lot of places in my life and it seems I’ve found quite the mole and vole hotbed also known as my yard. sighs

My dog is able to catch them, but not without digging up tunnels, grass, and making a mess. My neighbor inserts “worms” (poison) into the tunnels, but I don’t do that because of our dog.

I wish I could lay a yellow brick road for them to follow to a happier place, but they don’t seem to be the type to understand. I don’t actually want to harm any critters and thus the inner turmoil of humankind vs nature. I really don’t like this post and I’m the one who wrote it.

  • DavidP@toast.oooEnglish
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    1 year ago

    We get a lot of voles which enjoy eating our garden and saplings. I’ve decent success by:

    • garden: putting a wire mesh fence around it with 1/4" hardware cloth buried 4" underground
    • trees: plastic protective tubes around the trunks and also keeping the grass/weeds around then cut short. Voles like the protection of tall grass.