Potato Muncher...

[vfem]

So, I'm out with the family digging up potatoes (yes, I hurt myself, I knew better and did it anyway)..

I'm tossing potatoes to the DD and hubby was using the shovel to loosen the dirt. A few potatoes roll out and as I'm scooping them I notice one is pretty ugly and grey and wiggly!

It's a VOLE! It's been munching on my potatoes!!!

So I toss it to hubby, and OFF WITH IT HEAD! (Of course, I make DD look the other way.) Then the cat has the nerve to walk over to see whats going on. "I'm doing your job." I tell her.


1 Vole down, and only a 10000 to go.

 

[journey11]

Oh they are crazy about the potatoes! I had them shooting out like roman candles as I harvested one year.

 

[digitS']

Voles are the reason I grew potatoes under a mulch only once!

It seemed like such a good idea to use rain-spoiled alfalfa hay to cover the seed potatoes just lying on the freshly turned soil. The voles must have thought it was very nice of me to put down a thatched roof for them to live under.

I am still willing to hill the plants with compost but that isn't so dry. They no longer have the conditions nor the several months to build a vole metropolis.

Steve

 

[Collector]

Oh man if it not one thing it's 10,000 others lol. Hey you are supposed to be taking it easy, not tossing around potatoes and voles. Don't over do it V...

 

[baymule]

Take care of yourself dear lady and don't overdo it.