How To Effectively Control Voles In The Garden. Why Sounds & Sprays Do Not Work On Voles.
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- Опубликовано: 2 окт 2022
- When it comes to controlling voles in the garden you need to look at the whole environment. The key here is to ensure an open space where they can not hide from predators. Also removing food sources such as leftover root veggies is key for vole control.
Castor Oil For Voles: geni.us/Nm8X
Tunnel Vole Trap (place this next to the hole): geni.us/pTzSq
Vole PVC T-Trap: geni.us/ebyGJgB
Poisoned Mouse Bait: geni.us/xHpMTA
References:
Pine Vole Control Study:
digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/vi...
Penn State Vole Guide: extension.psu.edu/voles
Plant Based Vole Control Study: www.sciencedirect.com/science...
University of California: ipm.ucanr.edu/PMG/PESTNOTES/pn...
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Ashley is a soil scientist who has had a passion for plants since she was a small child. In the long summers as a child, she would garden alongside her grandmother and it was then that she realized her love for greenery. With years of great studying, Ashley had begun her post-secondary education at the University of Saskatchewan.
At first, her second love, animals, was the career path she chose but while doing her undergrad she realized that her education would take her elsewhere. And with that, four years later she graduated from the University of Saskatchewan with a bachelor’s degree in science and a major in Soil Science.
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It’s not often I have similar issues to you guys! But this time I lucked out 🎉.
Here are some items that are discussed in this video.
Castor Oil For Voles: geni.us/Nm8X
Tunnel Vole Trap (place this next to hole): geni.us/pTzSq
Vole PVC T-Trap: geni.us/ebyGJgB
Poisoned Mouse Bait: geni.us/xHpMTA
References:
Pine Vole Control Study:
digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1149&context=voles
Penn State Vole Guide: extension.psu.edu/voles
Plant Based Vole Control Study: www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0261219401001016
University of California: ipm.ucanr.edu/PMG/PESTNOTES/pn7439.html
Hello from Winnipeg, Mb. We use the pvc pipe trap here and it’s helped immensely. We have had a family of bunnies that nest in our yard every year so the trap is the most effective for us so we can enjoy bunnies zooming around, rather than watching voles eat our garden while shooting us “side eyes”, as we are enjoying afternoon deck coffees ☕️😎
I hav voles decimate newly planted lettuce starts. I tried snap traps only caught 1. I purchased pinwheels that spin and make noise from Amazon and put them around my garden and havent had voles in my garden since.
Fricken voles man… about 3 years ago it seemed like a random infestation of them on my street. My garden bed was Swiss cheese for the first time in my life. I was a woman on a mission. I set 7 snap traps (mice and rat sizes for good measure). Bait them with PB and checked them 2-3 times a day; at least 5 traps on average were full at every check. I did this every day all Spring, Summer and Fall that year then started again early the next year and again this year. I set the trap at the mouth of a hole and flip a bucket over on top of it; works like a charm! This year I’ve gotten a few randoms at best. I cut the grass at 2.25-2.5” every week, I whack everything at perimeters like fences, raised beds, corners the mower can’t reach. I’ve considered digging out the perimeter of my raised beds and laying hardware cloth, but to be honest I’d rather just move, lol. I’m hoping to buy some acreage in the next 2-5 years and build a house so really I’d be wise to save the money and hassle for doing it right the first time on the new property, but in the mean time I try to take baby steps to keep this green functioning as best I can. For me, snap traps were the only way to go. Caught the odd mouse or shrew in the process, but it’s been mainly a boatload of voles. They were relentless.
Hello from Cold Lake, AB. We have had an awful year with mice and voles also. I noticed first thing in the spring that there was a lot of damage done to our bushes and shrubs over winter. They had been stripped of their bark as high up as the snow drifts went. It progressed into crop damage in our gardens. They took a good majority of my beets, carrots. I have been prepping poison tubes to put down for them to nibble overwinter, hoping to cull the numbers. 12 years here and never have we seen this number of rodents. I was warned by our vet to be sure to keep up on de worming our dogs monthly also as they love them mice. They have found the mice are carrying a tape worm that is easily shared with humans via our mouse chasing fur babies.
very interesting! For the trees I would even do fine wire mesh around the base before the snow hits to protect them. I am concerned they will take them out on you!
Two years ago, these voles/mice ate the bark from our small fig trees. Last year, I wrapped the above ground stems with "fiberglass sheet rock tape" (2 inches wide mesh ). It totally stopped all chewing and was much easier to use than cutting strips of window screen.
Might be rabbits ,my apple trees ,6 were practically destroyed bh rabbits. I saved them with moss wrapped with plastic . The one tree not damaged keeled over and died. Next I wrapped with plastic mesh followed by a chicken wire hoop ax high as the lower branches. This is the third winter coming up. I still have voles chewing the roots,goinb to try castor oil. Plague of mice here. I removed the moss and plastic the following spring,all trees survived. Found this treatment for healing bark chewed off trees on youtube
We live in South Carolina and the voles have been bad this year. They come and go. Some years we don't have any and other years they are all over the place. The two best things we have found are the PVC bait traps you talked about - these did not get rid of them but did seem to get the numbers low. Bloodmeal sprinkled in the pathways did help a lot. So we do the PVC traps and bloodmeal and it seems like we are winning the war - Hahaha. Fingers crossed. Thanks for all the helpful information.
My Parents used this exact combo and it worked well
Why do you state that you cross your fingers? Is that magic? Witchcraft?
Finally figured out why my flower garden was not flourishing , voles..all my lilies crocus tulips clematis...roses half dead.Hundreds of dollars destroyed. Last year it was my fruit trees, blamed rabbits, protected them better. They will survive but set back a couple of years. Heart breaking, near woodland so thats where they are coming from.
Keeping rodents under control is a must for a serious vegetable gardener! If I didn’t do anything I wouldn’t have much of a harvest! I have had mouse traps out and starting last year I suddenly need rat traps too (yuk). I don’t use any poison because I don’t want to hurt any other creature that might eat a poisoned rodent. Thanks for that video!
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rats! I would be out there with a bb if I knew those where lurking around.
We found a product called a gopher hawk. I tried to share a link, but I am technically lame, so couldn’t do it. We are caught four gophers and two voles. Our dogs let us know where they are active and we just put the trap there. Sometimes it takes a few days but we usually get them eventually thank you for all your great information. I watched many of your videos, but I’ve never left a comment before I live in the Pacific Northwest, and I am retired now and started a 25 x 30 garden last year. Mostly tomatoes that I had a hard time getting ripe. But my golden cherry tomatoes were exceptional.
I checked out the gopher hawk trap and I think you caught 2 moles and not voles with that trap. I find most people do not realize the difference.
Sorry to comment before watching the video, but around here (desert West USA) vole populations are well documented to crest and plummet over 5-7 year cycles. Meaning, even if you do nothing, the problem has historically receded all on its own (in a region-wide manner) as quickly as it peaks (for no clear rhyme or reason, seemingly, but for many complex physical reasons). Of course, ecosystems' rhythms can get out of whack -- predators eliminated, food and habitat expanded, etc -- so I'm not saying EVERYONE's vole infestation will recede with nothing more than a year or two's patience, but many will. A lot of solutions might just feel satisfying but merely correlate with -- not cause -- a resolution or improvement. I would especially avoid poisons as more potential harm than actual good. Like almost any garden pest, see if you can let nature take its course and not swoop in with your own solutions because you might just marry yourself to that upkeep/maintenance/practice and continually keep a natural phenomenon from taking care of it for you.
Very interesting! It maybe a predator pray cycle that is causing the waves
Voles hate the smell of onions, garlic and leeks etc.... I have surrounded my spud patch with them, also had some leeks that bolted, cut them down and laid them on the soil between rows.
The leeks that I cut down, the plants roots are now growing again....What can I expect to see?
Voles ate probably 75% of my sweet potato crop in 2021. I planted in plastic tubs this year whereas last year I used grow bags that they ate straight through. No mulch and over winter nothing covered the soil. This year they ate only three sweets. Will use those traps next year for sure.
I have chives in a grow bag and they ate a hole through mine as well.
So far they have stayed out of my garden this year but still have them in my yard and perennial beds
Last year they ate all my beats.
Bought 4 litres of the castor oil - didn’t work.
What kind of bait do you use in the tube traps?
ideally poisonous... which some people are not happy about. or you could do a bait with snap trap inside the tube
We have some older families that grow the actual castor plants in the garden and they don’t seem to have any issues. They have them in random locations in the garden and they have been doing it for 30 years at least.
So it is likely safe then. I just could not for the life of me find anything that would definitively say.
My town uses it as an ornamental plant in its parks too.
Thank you. I have an issue with those buggers eating my potatoes as well. I will get some traps. I almost bought those other gagdets but I'm glad I didn't!
Oh my goodness the taters! That’s the worst
Ya only the big ones of course🙄
I had a vole infestation last year, I pulled everything up and started to grow in raised beds with gopher wire under everything, voles are gone after one year, but now I have a complete infestation of gophers in other areas, I tried to grow a cover crop in my front and back yards and the gophers are demolishing it. Any ideas for gophers??? I'm too afraid to use poison, for fear my dogs or someones cat will get into it.
Hi, it's Lynn from Big River, again. What would your suggestion be for slugs? And slug eggs? We thought a light application of vinegar but I don't want to harm any earth worms.
Slugs love beer. Bury small cups of it and they’ll drown themselves.
QUESTION ?
I understand that to get beet seed the are biannual.
Do I want to leave them in the ground over the winter or what ? .
If your climate allows for it absolutely. if your ground freezes it will not work
@@GardeningInCanada Would you please outline the process for a climate where the ground does freeze ? I pulled some and they dried out. Is Damp Sand the best option?
Wow! Your video is a real eye opener. I thought we didn’t have any in our area, and had to Google exactly what voles are. All this time I thought they were just cute fat rats. Our neighborhood tuxedo cat keeps them out of the garden and occasionally “gifts” us with them. Cats are adorable, but savages. On another note, since you’re a canner, do you make Saskatoon Berry Jam? Just came across the recipe in the Ball/Bernardin Complete Book of Home Preserving, and have never heard of Saskatoon berries until now.
Yes! It's delicious. I can literally everything haha
@@GardeningInCanada Hahahaha I feel ya. In a bit of a canning mood as well. I’m debating starting a preserve for a water bath during my next zoom call. My mind is telling me no, but my blueberries are telling me yessss
Voles are terrible this year. Caught about 16 with physical mouse traps. That made us go to a professional service vole/mice control. Founs one dead so far but no more new grass path damages.
I just bait them with peanutbutter, and a simple mouse trap (prefer the plastic types as the plywood ones will mold. Today is Feb, I am catching them as they can't resist such a treat in the winter. z4b. my neighbors all have bird feeders so they have a ton to snack on, but who can resist pb. When its not cold out, I have to put the trap in a dish of water to prevent ants from stealing the pb.
Message Ashly,I got today my Earth One arrives tomorrow I still have my pyramid greenhouse going and will see how things are growing
Let me know how it goes! I don’t have any tech savvy ness so I was semi confused by the setup but got it eventually! 😅
Lost 3 stocks of corn this year
Stink bugs absolutely 💯 destroyed them any ideas to get rid of them asking for next year
I will do a video on this! that is very unfortunate.
voles do tremendous damage to fruit trees and shrubs over winter. winter is when most vole damage happens under the snow where you cant see until spring melt.
Voles are getting kinda annoying in my suburban yard... But I'm not sure we can make things "open" enough. We have wooden terraces that they really like to hide in, so no matter what we do, they'll still have that. The wooden beams are rotted so they're wonderful tunnels for the voles and chipmunks...
Besides that, we have a lot of flower beds and shrubs they can hide in, and I like to grow my vegetables high intensity because I don't have that much space and want to make the best use of it.
I think I might have to trap them.
I think I actually trapped one in my compost pile once. Pile was very warm in early spring, so it was drawn to it, but it seems like by the time it realized it was too hot, it took it too long to find its way out? I cover the pile in several layers of cardboard for insulation and the dead vole was just laying under the cardboard. The cardboard retains heat and humidity quite well, so it may have been 120-160F with near 100% humidity, and high CO2/low oxygen, right under the cardboard at the surface of the compost. Considering prolonged exposure to 90-100F dew points is deadly to mammals, the dew points in my compost could have potentially been far above that...
Or maybe it just died from unrelated causes and it wasn't quite so warm where it was.
oh that is so bizarre! I wonder what they were doing in there. Try predator urine.
@@GardeningInCanada I mean I'm not that surprised they'd try going into my compost pile. Lots of sticks for them to chew, and it's warm, which they would find desirable in the early spring when it's -5C to 10C. I've seen a lot of them tunneling through the surface of the compost right under the cardboard when the compost was more moderately warm, just like they often tunnel through the lawn under the snow. But maybe this time the compost was a bit too hot and the vole couldn't find its way out? Or maybe it just happened to be in my compost pile when it died of some unrelated cause.
Last year we had vole problems. We set a Have A Heart trap and caught two. I forget what we used to attract them, probably something that they were eating. Oh, then we dropped them off at an enormous forest area.
they like root veg so that may have been what the came for.
Do the "baits" used in these PVC pipe traps pose a threat to humans? I mean, if you poison the voles in and around your garden or orchard, does that cause other risks?
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Rotting animal smells... So, what about using Bokashi compost holes as a deterrent?
likely would work!
Northwest Montana here. I spread fox and coyote urine around the perimeter of my garden, and it works well for voles, mice, and deer.
I also place traditional mice traps inside small sections of downspouts, and spread them around the perimeter.
No mice or vole issues. Now, the pocket gophers on the other hand.
That sounds like a good setup!
Catch a couple for Nate at Canadian Prepper, he may have a recipe to turn them into a survival protein dish ! 🤔🤣
Good idea!! HAHA
I had vole problems too. I used coyote urine, and my daughter’s dog happened to be with us then, so the combination of the two seemed to work. It may not continue into the future however.
biological control with predators seems to be the best so i would not be shocked if it works for a while
We have coyotes walking by the stream that runs along our rear property line on a daily basis (if not more often) and that part of the yard is also where we have the most voles. But maybe you have to really target the specific area where the voles are? The path the coyotes use is on the other side of the creek from the vole's main habitat, so they're separated by a distance of about 3-5m.
Doesn’t the poison get in to the food chain?
Is it a suppressed .22 cal rifle? No spray no sound?
LOL suppressors are not legal in Canada.
Here's how you find out: watch the video!
@@kele1264 I did I just wanted to guess at the beginning!
@@GardeningInCanada Shame, great tip! I don’t have Voles around me just moles.
@@GardeningInCanada Silencers not legal in the US either. I don't know if we've got voles here my area, but we've got moles, and more recently mice, and omg, rats. Due to storms, flooding, construction, chased out of "normal" habitats.
mint oil will deter them aswell. a great resource for rodent control is checking out " mouse trap mondays" here on youtube.
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I just bought a gallon of castor oil to soak a perimeter around my gardens. I don't like using poison because we have a couple little fox families that live here and eat the voles when they can.
It will work! Just reapply and you will be good to go
Mint oil is the best deterrent just take a drop of mint oil in a cotton ball put the cotton ball in their tunnels and they are rodents and rodents are allergic to mint. It works on all rodents including moles which I had in my yard and got rid of with mint oil.
That is so interesting! I have never tried that before.
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You need an owl to hang around and catch the voles.
You should never use poison traps outside. The rodent eats the poison, then gets caught by a bird of pray and you've just poisoned a bird of pray. Saw this first hand at a local wildlife rehab center. Two beautiful red tailed hawks, both poisoned. They were only able to save the life of one hawk, the other one died.
how did ya beet them :) lol
AHAHA hands down best Pun in a while
@@GardeningInCanada lol holy Moley lol
I have a rat that's been hanging out in my yard. I think it lives in my hugel mound :(
Nooooooo a rat?!? My soul would exit my body
2 mice 3 too many especially inside your home or vehicle
Voles were the worst I've ever seen them, wiped out 1/2 my beets, all my Ruth Stout Potatoes...
The PVC pipes did not work out for me, at all.
Uh oh
Poison can kill other animals inadvertently, what kind of poison do you use? I don’t want my owls dying from horrible poison.
Ok....the fact that you practice "knocking on wood" and preparing "borș" makes me ask if you have middle-eastern roots.
I have 6 cats and 0 mice or rats.mine to like to showoff their catch.
Luky me we dont have volves In Romania or at least none that I know of
Not that I know of! I wish i had some and then I would not burn so dang easy.
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Me too.
Disappointed you would recommend poison☠️