February: mole and vole prevention and tree-trimming

1) Mole and Vole Prevention

Mole & vole prevention: You may already be seeing signs of moles an voles, who start looking around for food and planning their homesteading in your lawn for the season.

The best way to treat for moles and voles is to not create a hospitable environment for them. Moles love loose, fertile soil with a lot of grubs and bugs to feed on. Where this is a rich environment for your grass and garden, it’s also a fertile feeding and burrowing ground for moles and voles. If you don’t want to be stomping molehills and exterminating moles and voles all summer, and trying useless tactics like vibrating spikes, here’s what you’ll need (and you can repeat this throughout the season as you see molehills start to pop up):

• bug treatment

Directions

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January and February is a great time to trim back your trees, to let more light into your yard when the grass growth season comes. Without leaves on them yet, and with your trees transitioning from root growth, trimming back leafless limbs now will have less of a negative impact on them than if you were to trim them later in the growth season. If you trim now, you’re also taking away the risk of cutting down limbs when birds are in their nesting season. Plus it’s easier when there are no leaves on the limbs. Here are a few tools I really have fun with for tree trimming:

• Battery pole chainsaw

• Battery chain saw

• Automatic lopper