5 The best plants against voles
Voles can cause great damage, but avoid everything that stinks.
Therefore, you can use particularly odorous plants as bodyguards against
the voles - to drive the animals away or as a diversion.
voles live alone from vegetable food. To it not only the roots of ornamental shrubs and fruit trees belong, but also storage organs such as tubers, bulbs or rhizomes
voles are stubborn, clever and can even rob convinced natural gardeners of their last nerve.
Only those without a garden find voles cute.
Because if a freshly planted fruit tree can be pulled out of the ground again just like that,
the tulips disappear never to be seen again or the carrot harvest is eaten short and small,
gardeners only clench their hands above their heads.
Fortunately, there are some plants that are avoided by voles.
Which plants can keep voles at a distance?
1. Imperial crowns (Frittilaria imperialis)2. Sweet Clover (Melilotus officinalis)3. Cross-leaved spurge (Euphorbia lathyris)4. Garlic (Allium sativus)5. Black elderberry (Sambucus nigra)
voles are tormentors in the underground
Voles live in the garden in a good 100 square meters large area
and create a distinctive tunnel system with up to ten entrances.
The tunnels run for the most part close below the earth's
surface - within reach of the plant roots, which they love to plaster.
Only one mouse lives in each tunnel system; there is no connection to the neighbor's territory.
Voles become more sociable only from April to September, then is combination-time.
The mouse-offspring becomes sexually mature in the same year and provides for own offspring.
You should not let it come so far!
Vole or mole?
A vole-heap is clearly flatter in the comparison to the mole-heap
Wall outlets can be recognized by their cross-section: It is highly oval - in contrast to the transverse oval mole ducts.
In addition, the vole passages run closely under the earth's surface,
and vole do not raise the earth to high hills like moles, but leave flat, elongated upheavals.
If you rake away one of the earth-mounds and expose the tunnel-entrance as far as into few centimeters of depth,
a mole will push it again completely at the latest after few hours.
Voles, on the other hand, leave the entrance open longer and also only close the entrance,
the few centimeters deep hole remains.
Scare away voles with plants
Nasty smells? They do not appreciate voles with their fine nose at all.
Because in their tunnels, the animals orientate themselves mostly
by scents - they recognize enemies by this, but also find their food.
Therefore, distracting smells don't come at all well with the animals.
Voles are clever, however, again and again stink bombs from tufts of hair of humans,
dogs and cats or from rancid butyric acid are recommended against the animals,
which one should give into the tunnels.
But that leaves the rodents cold - they simply bury the substances or scratch them shut so that they no longer stink.
For this reason, also Pflanzensud is little promising against voles.
More promising - but also no guarantee - are plants that keep voles at a distance due to their intense inherent odor.
The animals cannot simply bury these plants and do not eat them either.
In addition, you have less work: Instead of constantly placing new stink bombs in front of the voles,
you plant the defense plants only once and then hope for the best.
The effect of such plants is of course locally limited and the experiences with such
scented plants are also quite different: What scares off voles in one garden, leaves them cold in other areas.
But if you plant different species, chances are good that voles will actually take
flight and migrate to neighboring gardens - or at least leave the other plants alone.
In urban gardens, the chances of success against voles are higher than in rural ones,
where it is not uncommon for new mice to move in from the meadows or woods.
The following plants are under discussion against voles:
1. Imperial crowns (Frittilaria imperialis):
The bulbous plants, which grow between 60 and 100 centimeters high,
inspire in ornamental gardens with their striking yellow, red or orange flowers and have a deterrent effect on voles.
A sunny location with permeable soil is important. Other bulbous plants such as daffodils are said to have a similar effect.
The tubers of the imperial crowns smell of garlic and are to drive away the smell-sensitive voles
2. Sweet Clover (Melilotus officinalis):
The herbaceous, mostly biennial plant is a medicinal plant with an intense fragrance and is also used against moths when dried.
3. Cross-leaved spurge (Euphorbia lathyris):
The plants are not called vole spurge for nothing - the rodents avoid the wintergreen, but in all parts poisonous plants.
The cross-leaved spurge has strikingly symmetrically arranged leaves and grows up to one meter high.
The plants are biennial, but are preserved by self-sowing in the garden.
4. Garlic (Allium sativus):
Garlic is healthy, but makes you lonely - if you have eaten too much of it once, you know the effect.
The next day, your fellow human beings do not necessarily feel comfortable around it.
Voles have a similar effect with their extremely fine nose, they avoid garlic plants
because of the essential oils they contain and therefore the plants are good protection against rodents.
5. Black elder (Sambucus nigra):
Also the popular berry bushes are said to be able to scare away voles.
Disadvantage: Of course, the shrubs cannot be replanted or transplanted as an intermediate crop.
Use plants correctly against voles
A lot helps a lot - place the plants against voles in larger groups distributed
in the garden or as a mixed culture in the middle of the plants to be protected.
In this case, the desired location of the plants must naturally match.
Where possible, plant a protective ring around the beds to be protected,
this has the best chance of success - or place the plants right at the border
of the property and hope that the voles do not invade in the first place.
Diversionary maneuver - lure voles away
Jerusalem artichoke, carrots, celery or tulip bulbs are particularly popular
with voles - they simply cannot resist them.
If you deliberately place these plants far away from the vegetable beds or borders,
you can often lure the voles away from them and your flowers will be spared.
In order for the distraction against voles to be successful,
you should place the plants right at the border of the property so that the mice
from the neighboring garden don't even have the idea of making a big fuss about other plants.
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