Thank you so much for your quick reply. I have purchased the caster oil liquid to spray and have sprayed heavely several times, then followed with a bag of the caster dry mix. The voles don't care. I have put the flares in the ground. The voles don't care. I have put the traps in the tunnels on both sides on top of the vole exit holes with peanut butter and oats. They are not interested. I have bought the small rough rocks and poured them around the plants but I think they are using them to sharpen their teeth. I have tried several poison pellets and that has worked some but I am out numbered and cannot get ahead of them. I have bought a nice pitchfork and have been stabbing the tunnels. Now I am sure my neighbors think I have gone insane.
I have planted my garden plants that I love. Now that they care about, and love them also.
So nothing is working. I have been fighting them for 5 yrs. and my yard is still riddled with a tunnel freeway system.
I have contacted several snake removal services and hope I can buy some snakes from them. But the immediate problem and the voles are very active eating everything and making babies and the snakes are sleeping. So when they wake up and start scaring people, maybe I can be the proud 'owner' of some vole killers. I am having trouble finding info on how to introduce them to my yard and how many snakes can be in an area with each other. Right now I think I need about 6!
This is a horrible situation for a gardener to be in.
