While we enjoy their flowers, voles prefer the bulbs. In spring we eagerly wait for the carpet of flowers planted in autumn. But if mice live in the garden, they can spoil this pleasure for us. They enjoy the onions.
How can you protect flower bulbs from voles?
To protect flower bulbs from voles, you can use vole traps or natural predators, use special planting trays or rabbit wire and choose “mouse-resistant” plants such as imperial crowns, daffodils, grape hyacinths or checkerboard flowers.
Fighting voles
It's enough for the rodents to eat the flower bulbs, so they don't sprout at all. The voles, which like to reproduce, should therefore be combated in any case. If they disappear from the garden, the flower bulbs are also safe from them.
- Use suitable control agents
- Vole traps are ideal (€31.00 on Amazon)
- Chemistry only as a last choice
- establish natural predators, e.g. B. Cats
Shield flower bulbs
There may be periods of time when newly settled voles have not yet been noticed. Or the culprit has long been known but has not yet been completely driven away. Then you should protect your flower bulbs to be on the safe side:
- use special planting trays
- made of plastic or metal wire
- Onions are inaccessible to mice
- Alternatively, lay out rabbit wire as a barrier when planting
Tip
Plant
Flower bulbs that voles don't like: imperial crowns, daffodils, grape hyacinths or checkerboard flowers.
