Voles

 

Something has happened. The other night when I was watering, I found this.

 

 

It’s a pile of dirt in my garden bed. After careful examination it was exactly what I feared it was. The voles have found our garden.  There’s a tunnel underneath that leads right to my asparagus.

 

The voles have already eaten the roots of every apple tree we’ve tried to plant. Now they want my vegetables.  We had hoped with how rocky and sandy the soil was in the garden (one reason we did raised beds) they would stay away. We were wrong. Our cats had better get to work.