Jan it was a Surprise because it never happened. I use the rock trick with plants that I know will heave.

I had a few daylily's heave -- then to discover I had VOLES!! Those little vermin are pushing them up outta the ground after they eat all the nice tubers! grrrrr....

Christine, those voles are horrid little creatures!!

I am overrun with voles nothing seems to work to rid my yard of them. GRRR!

Traps that kill them, I got about 30 last summer and fall, had a lot less damage from them this year.

What kind of traps did you use?

Ann, there was a tip/article here on ATP on traps you might want to look at. Margaret, is this the same kind you used?

http://garden.org/ideas/view/d...

No Juli, I posted a photo last year,?? I think I deleted it from my photos as I can't find it. It is really easy to bait and set, got them at Home Depot, you lift the cover of the the bait box, I use peanut butter, and stick a few seeds in it, pull up the killing lever and that sets the trap, when the vole or mouse lifts the cover of the bait box the lever comes down on their neck and kill them real quick.

I gotta get me some of those!!! Also underneath the bird feeders -- I have Moles! Little trails all over that area -- just under the bird feeders in the yard -- the ground is all pushed up and around with trails thru it!

I too have used the rock trick, mostly on newly planted iris but also on a few others.

Luckily I haven't noticed any mole activity in several years

Seedsower, this was a really sad thread.
How dod your daylilies progress the rest of the summer?

Must look up voles. Are they cute?

Might be, apart from the devastation they cause.
I'm lucky enough not to have had them.

While you're at it, look up pocket gophers.
THOSE I have experience with.

I like your quolls and quokkas.
Do they destroy gardens?

Farmerbell, and the rest of you with voles/moles, etc. -
Adopt a colony of feral cats.
Trap, neuter, release.
Give 'em a warm place to sleep.
Feed them, but leave room in their little tummies for hunting.
http://www.alleycat.org/page.a...

Quolls used to like chickens but they have long been persecuted into scarcity or extinction in some areas. Quokkas are just restricted to Rottnest now. Europeans were quite devastating on small to medium sized marsupials.

CG, releasing feral cats is not a good idea, besides killing the voles and mice, they kill too many song birds, they kill them not because they are hungry, it is just what cats do!.

I know the birds suffer. But the ferals are OUT THERE ANYWAY because people don't spay and neuter their pets.

I advocate for trap, neuter, release on the ferals so they at least don't BREED. And so they don't suffer, I believe in feeding and monitoring them.

Gleni said:Europeans were quite devastating on small to medium sized marsupials.

Well that sucks.
I hope they have reserves where they can be themselves....

I must say that the hawks around here kill more song birds than cats. Of course, they get pigeons a lot and we are over run with those so that will help with that problem.

Happy Solstice everyone!
The sun has begun its return to us.
With apologies to our friends from the Southern Hemisphere - In only 6 months will begin its return to you again.