RIP in pieces

[RJG2]

Turn away while you still can...



Voles got to my two favorite privet projects, my Nippon daisies from @Pitoon, and my crab apple (there may be more, but I'm too afraid to look now)...

Can probably ground layer the crab, and maybe air layer a trunk from the larger privet, but I'm pretty sad.

Guess I need to build a hardware cloth cage for next winter...

 

[RJG2]

Mame multiflora

 

[Maiden69]

Guess I need to build a hardware cloth cage for next winter...

That really sucks. Make sure you electrify it to get rid of them instantly. I seriously hate rodents.

 

[misfit11]

Sorry. It's never easy to lose trees.

 

[jeremy_norbury]

Ouch

This is how I deal with it: There's now more space to grow more trees...

 

[rockm]

Ouch indeed. Freaking voles...I have similar issues with Chipmunks (who are waking up early because of the warm weather.) Squirrels are currently nipping off the ends of branches on my in-ground Arakawa maple because they want the rising sap. Happens every year...it's just early this year...

 

[Eckhoffw]

I feel your pain. That’s a bummer.
I also will be buying hardware cloth this year.

I planted some stuff to grow out in a new bed this fall.

With exception of the large elm at left, all plants were decimated by early winter.

Also may have lost a half dozen plants to hungry rabbits that got into my greenhouse this year.
.

 

[penumbra]

Wow! I am so sorry. Those are vicious critters you have.

 

[namnhi]

That's sux! No other way to put it. :-(

 

[RJG2]

I should have taken the hint when they did my regular apple tree last year.

Full size apple tree girdled...

I should probably join a different forum for this, but hey, I like you people. I have a regular apple tree in ground, and just noticed it has been completely girdled at the base this winter... Seems too low for bridge grafts 😞 Any options or cut my losses? I'm a bit sad considering I've...

www.bonsainut.com

 

[RJG2]

Hey @mattspinniken I remember you mentioning you were going to build some cages in @M. Frary's tragic thread...

I think I saw you loading them up on your Instagram last fall. Any pictures?

 

[GGB]

oooooch condolences. They went hard on those, hopefully it's just those deciduous trees, usually conifers get passed over

 

[badatusernames]

Brutal. Rodents got only one of my trees last year, it just so happened to be my most expensive and nicest. At least they have taste.

I've thrown a bunch of stuff like this around my over wintering area:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0B773C3M6?psc=1&ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_product_details

There are a few different options for different species. These STINK! No damage yet this year. I know I also put down some MoleMax.

 

[Shogun610]

I have an implant thing that I stick in the ground , every 30 seconds it chirps , no issues from rodents of any kind all winter long . I also sprinkle stuff from time to time around my stuff outside to act as a deterrent

 

[badatusernames]

I have an implant thing that I stick in the ground , every 30 seconds it chirps , no issues from rodents of any kind all winter long . I also sprinkle stuff from time to time around my stuff outside to act as a deterrent

I checked that out too (mine was Yard Sentinel) and it definitely worked but was too audible with my proximity to neighbors. And my poor dogs hated it! I thought there was a way to make it inaudible but it drove me nuts too, maybe I was using it wrong

 

[Shogun610]

I checked that out too (mine was Yard Sentinel) and it definitely worked but was too audible with my proximity to neighbors. And my poor dogs hated it! I thought there was a way to make it inaudible but it drove me nuts too, maybe I was using it wrong

It wasn’t too loud just audible 30 feet … I’ve gotten no grief albeit I only use it in winter when peoples windows are closed anyway .. also freight train tracks are 3 football fields from the town so the audible level for noise is definitely at a different level for what’s an acceptable noise level and what isn’t

 

[JudyB]

Awful! Gnawing critters are the worst. Sorry for your setback, and that first tree was super cool too.

 

[Hartinez]

Total bummer dude. Especially that privet. I took some screen shots of Matt’s setup from his Instagram page. It seems like the way to go.

 

[ABCarve]

...................................................hard to know what to say. So sorry!

 

[Carol 83]

Wow, so sorry. I hate all rodents. Last year the squirrel's decimated almost all of my jades and basically created havoc on many of my trees, digging in pots and snipping branches. I have a bunch of Nippon daisy cuttings taken from my @Pitoon plants that you are welcome to.