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Vole damage in the herb garden. I don’t know how they got in, the floor of the garden is lined with chicken wire and the picket side slats at lined with rabbit wire. But they got in and pretty much destroyed everything. I have a small patch of oregano left, and lemon balm, one of the 5 golden marjorams made it, and the betony and comfrey were untouched as was the chives, of course. Everything else is gone. Literally, gone.
So I’m going to toss poison way down into the holes, then the next week I’m going to throw around some deterrent pellets. Then I need to re-level the beds and bring in new composted garden soil. I will do this over a period of weeks. Meanwhile, I need to try to figure out how they got in there in the first place.
Maybe I’ll buy some of the perennial herbs and get them planted before the fall, and then start over with the annuals next spring. Maybe it’s for the best – the walkways and the gates need to be replaced, they’re 13 years old now and falling apart. So maybe not having a garden full of plants that are in the way, will allow that project to move forward. so I’m trying to put a bright side on the situation, but wow, just wow. Utter devastation.
And from now on, I’ll be throwing vole deterrent around the yard on a regular basis.