How to prevent voles in your vegetable garden NATURALLY!
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- čas přidán 12. 08. 2024
- NATURAL. SIMPLE. QUICK. Here are 3 ways to keep voles out of your raised beds or vegetable garden.
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There is nothing quite as frustrating as planting out your garden and coming back to tunnels and mounds created by voles, moles, mole rats and gophers. In this video we look at 3 effective ways to prevent voles in your vegetable garden naturally through barriers, the wind and using a very specific plant!
Video timeline
00:00 - Introduction
01:52 - How to identify vole damage
03:39 - What to do with vole tunnels
04:35 - Preventing voles using a plant
05:56 - Preventing voles using the wind
07:38 - Preventing voles using barriers
10:46 - Making sure voles stay out of the garden
When it comes to keeping voles, gophers and mole rats out the garden, prevention is always the most effective treatment. By preventing voles from accessing your growing space or vegetable beds you are deterring them naturally so birds of prey, and other predators, can still catch and eat them.
The first thing that you need to do is make sure you actually have a vole problem. Voles are much smaller than Gophers or mole rats and have small tunnels that slightly lift the soil in your beds - just enough to cause damage to your plants! Moles on the other hand come from much deeper under the ground and push soil up, rather than tunnel along the top.
Learning how to keep voles out of vegetable gardens is one of the simplest and most valuable things you can do. It takes very little time and requires no chemicals or poisons - just clever and logical thinking.
Once you know you have a vole problem its time to implement preventative measures to keep voles out of your garden and these range from planting very specific plants that have strong smells that keep voles away, using the wind and then creating barriers to keep voles out of your raised beds.
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Have you been troubled by voles in your vegetable garden? What did you do to keep them out your garden? Drop me a comment, I would love to hear 🌻
Great info thank you!!
It's the greatest of pleasure and I'm glad you found value in watching this video 🌻
I live in New Mexico and have about a foot of calechi under a half inch of powder, my moles/voles dig right through it and leave piles of large chunks of calechi.
Wow, that sounds like a terrible situation to be in and I must say they are pretty determined creatures, especially if food is scarce! I hope you manage to find a solution and consider using metal wire (chicken wire) as they shouldn't be able to get through those 🌻
I found the information very useful. I have I small garden and every year I have to try something different to repell the voles naturally. I already planted some daffodils wich work very good around trees.
But for around the vegetables I will try to plant what you showed in the video.
It wasn't clear for me the name of the plant you took out to show the roots. Could you please tell me the botanical name of the plant? I would be very grateful if you can do it
Thanks for leaving such a detailed a great comment 🌻
Absolutely! The botanical name is Tulbaghia Violacea and the common name is wild garlic. You can eat the leaves and use them as a substitute for garlic in roasts or fresh in salads. They are absolutely delicious!
I really hope this helps you get those pesky voles under control 🌻
@MySustainabilityJourney perfect thank you very much!!
A plastic pop bottles with fins cut out on a metal rod works great too
Thanks for taking the time to leave a comment and yes, I have heard that works for some people, but for that didn't do much. However, like I mentioned in the video, what works for me might not work for you and the reverse applies too. Glad you found what works for you 🌻
How do you make this?
@@DonnaMM6361big bottle, hole in bottom,, leave top on, cut 4 rectangle fins and fold out, put wire through bottle on a stiff wire, wind spins it causing vibration in soil
I appreciate that you have shown what the tunnels and holes of voles specifically look like in raised garden beds. I am in northwest United States and been searching for this information specifically. I have had a pretty good idea that my pesky rodent is a vole, but have not been able to confirm that. Most people (and videos) combine the mole and vole as similar enough, that they don't distinguish vole activity in the vegetable garden. We are building new raised beds with hardware cloth on the bottom. It has 1/2" squares. Does anyone know if that is too large to prevent voles from entering? The wild garlic you have is new to me. I will search for it. Thank you! Mukilteo, Washington, United States. Happy Father's Day!
Hey Donna, thanks for taking the time to write such a great comment and share your experiences with me 💚
I would say that spacing would be fine to keep them out but also allow worms and other insects to move around freely.
I'm glad this video helped distinguish the difference as I found the same. Correct identification is the most important thing when it comes to prevention.
I hope you had a super productive summer garden and good luck for the looming winter season 🌻
Ja wel Mollie is besig hier by my. Blykbaar het sy lewensreg hier op die plot, en tans vreet sy al my wortels. Grondboontjies en aataples loop ook deur. Sal seke die gas ding moet probeer. Tans is my wortels tussn 2 rye uie en sy werk deur die wortels elk aand.
Ai, dit klink soos n regte pein! Molle is baie moeilik om ontslae to raak, maar dit kan ook n gopher wees as molle eet goggas en wurms en nie wortel nie, maar ja, dit is bitter frustrerend!
Het al baie planne probeer maak. Sover werk my citronella metode die beste.
2 druppels in 'n gieter water en gooi 'n grens om jou bedding. 😊
Baie dankie! Ek het nog nie hierdie metode probeer nie end sal dit nou probeer. Gebruik jy net gewone citronella oil? Hoe gereeld doen jy dit/is dit effektief in die grond?
@@MySustainabilityJourney Ja, dis sulke klein glas botteltjies wat my vrou by young livings koop. As ek moet raai gooi ek so halwe liter per meter. Doen dit net een of 2 keer per seisoen. Nou al my 3de jaar van sukses. Hoop dit werk vir jou.
@@beeskuiken Dankjewel, dit ga ik ook proberen! Ik heb ook van die "party windmolens" over in mijn tuin gezet, lijkt wel iets te werken. Maar ik ga zeker citronella proberen! Groeten uit Nederland
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It's only a pleasure 🌻
I love the info but I can’t deal with the outfit !!
Haha well I'm glad you managed to get some gardening advice and thank goodness I didn't start a fashion channel then 😂
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