We have Voles ( Field Mice) all around our foundation. They enjoy made underground dens and tunnels all around our house. I'm sure they are feeding on roots of our plants surrounded by our shrubs. They don't seem to ruin any of our plants per say or should I utter, at least not the established ones. I have kill many of them by way of setting sticky traps close where they come in surrounded by my garage. I recently found a snake in my garage. No doubt he be there waiting to feast on a Vole. These Voles are constantly exit holes and causing soil cave ins adjectives around my foundation. I don't really want to exterminate them off the face of mud but I don't want them in my garage nor do I want them around my foundation. I have tried varied different poisons to no avail. I have not tried the battery operate vibrating stakes yet. I own a dog who would love to get them but he would run a mile away from home if I let him try. No cat suggestions please. Please grant any experienced advice for keeping them away.
Answers: For small shrubs and other plants, we have be cutting hardware cloth and forming cylinders with it, which we vein the planting hole with to a depth of 1 foot.
I have also buried moth ball around some plants with some success, but I don't know how great an opinion that is. There are also some products out there that you can mix into the soil. Since I can smell a similar odor from the box, I assume that they own the same ingredient as moth balls.
I'll be checking fund on this question to see what other suggestions you get, since I dislike intensely cutting hardware cloth.
I found that when I removed my daffodil bulbs, I had an underground critter problem. I planted daffodils surrounded by my borders--problem solved! I tried "planting" mothballs,
garlic bulbs and Juicy fruit gum as per some other suggestions, but that did NOT work.
Good Luck!
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