It is really insane down here. Up north it's green everywhere so a few voles aren't much of a problem. I like to make deals with all the little people and I told the voles they could have only one of my cabbages. They seemed to honor this contract and only one of my cabbages had any appreciable damage. They ate it right down to the stem but left the other cabbages alone. Weird, eh?

The only other constant threat is from the deer. They have lots to eat, but they seem to prefer exotic food from my garden. Last year I did have a bear tear down my plastic deer fence to get to my plum tree. Then the deer got in and finished off my garden. Even after I fixed the fence, the deer had learned that they could rip through the plastic with their front hooves so the fence was useless after that. Being the scrounge that I am I had quite a bit of old wire fencing lying around. I hastily installed it and it worked to keep them out. It looks like crap but it was an emergency. (and I'm too lazy and cheap to go buy new wire fencing since this was only a temporary garden until I got my cabin built.)