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yesterday while walking round my new pond I saw to my horror that two clumps of Carex had been savaged! I blamed rabbits, although I have never seen one in the garden, but we have field at the back so is feasible. Anyway, this morning I get my coffee and head to check on the frog spawn my neighbour passed over the fence yesterday (saved from the jaws of his Koi), when a long grey furry little dude ran through the plants and disappeared into the logs around the pond edge! I tracked it down and sure enough twitching whiskers in a burrow, with all my missing Carex! Now I suspect my vegetable raised bed that I’ve only just built is going to prove a real draw! Thing is, on the one hand I’m thrilled it’s taken up residence, it’s a wildlife pond after all! On the other I’m thinking it won’t be long before 1 becomes 2 etc. I’m not sure if I should discourage it- remove logs etc, or if it will just return anyway?! I don’t mind sharing a bit of food, but equally don’t want my veg decimated! Any thoughts? It’s a bank or field vole, it’s a vole anyway and it’s very cute! ( well it is at the moment as it hasn’t eaten all my strawberries lol!)


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Put some small mesh wire netting firmly around your veggies if they begin to get raided, and perhaps provide your voles with a few stock carrots etc so they don't feel drawn to your veg patch and find a way through/over the wire.
No much we can do as surrounded by agricultural land, and yes they are cute but......