How do you get rid of vols from your lawn?

Answer 1

Best way to kill them and know if you really did is a mousetrap with peanut butter. Put a few traps where you see activity and place a box with a hole cut in opposite sides. The holes let the voles in but keeps larger animals like a dog from setting off the traps. Once you're not catching them anymore you can put the traps and boxes away.

Answer 2

Trails, or runs, are cause by moles. Voles are little critters that burrow in flowerbeds usually and other soil that's been recently cultivated. Moles are a big pain to gardeners and a search of the internet will give you literally dozens of supposed controls. People and experience tell me none of them work in all cases.

Try this: stomp down all the runs today, even if you have to get some friends to help you. Then tomorrow morning, go look where the action is - that is, where the new run has popped up. That's where they're living.

Take your garden hose and shove it into the run as far as it will go and turn it on for several hours. Sometimes the mole family will take the hint and move to the neighbor's house to escape the flood.

Answer 3

Once upon a time I lived in a house (apartment dweller now) with beautiful gardens. Over time I noticed the yard was filling up with holes, and that some particular plants seemed diminished or, in some cases, even disappeared.

I assumed I had moles (not sure how to tell the difference between moles and voles). For a few seasons I would push rocks down the holes, and sometimes stick the hose down the holes to try to flush them out. (I know... it sounds so evil, but I was mad).

The rock trick definitely did not work, because I always found new holes in the lawn. On occasion, and to my utter amazement, I would find the rocks back up on the ground.

Then I read somewhere (maybe a Jerry Baker book, that dirty bird) one sure fire method: place small pieces of juicy fruit gum around the holes.

I won't share with you what it does to them, because I don't want to see my face on PETA's "Death Wish List", but I will say that the moles spent more time chewing juicy fruit gum than chewing on my German iris bulbs.

Again, I don't know if voles make holes, so maybe this won't work for you. I just always assumed I had a mole issue, but maybe it was voles.

Answer 4

first you have to kill the moles, because they run in thier leads.there's a good poison on the market called rozol, if that doesn't work try cutting the bottoms out of your pots and planting in the pots,because the voles don't go that deep and they don't like the feel of the pots

Answer 5

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