Thanks thefarmguy and catherinet I will look for vole tunnels in the morning. Also we have a fountain that we will be putting in soon I hope. sunnibel7 I feel your pain, but I must say that really cracked me up. OH THE MEMORIES. I was that crazy lady at our other house only it was chipmunks. I am afraid things escalated from chasing to chasing/yelling and then to chasing/yelling and throwing rocks. Fortunately, for them, they made me so insanely angry that I couldn't hit the broad side of a barn with the rocks. I swear they did it on purpose for their own entertainment. We have been really lucky to have a pair of hawks nest here the last 4 years so they cleared up quite a few of the rodents. Thanks again for the suggestions. I'll look for signs of voles. Haven't seen any rabbits, but again it doesn't mean they are not there.

No footprints or tracks in the soil around the plants?? Doesn't sound like deer. They'll decimate the plant foliage and sometimes the fruit. Raccoons? You'd see their prints. With their human hand-like front paws they can pick the fruit without disturbing the plant. Squirrels..if it's exceptionally dry,droughty weather they might take a few for the moisture. Such a massive taking requires an animal that can carry what they can't immediately eat. HUMANS Get a game trail camera and set it up to a post. If it disappears, it's a human stealing your tomatoes.

You may try the following on small area first: Wet clean the floor with mineral spirits / paint thinner. Make sure to ventilate and extinguish any pilot lights. Charcoal filtered face masks for workers are recommended. Dry white cotton rags work well, and you should see a visible yellow residue on the rags (oil residue). Wipe from the clean area into the contaminated area, refolding the rags to wipe with a clean face, and changing rags frequently. Let dry, and clean a second time with a good water based surfactant cleaner (like Bona / Basic cleaners). Repeat water cleaning until no color transfers to the white cotton rags. If the floor is tight with no open cracks filled with reservoirs of oil, you may have restored the original appearance and gloss. If this procedure doesn't remove all dulling film, you have greatly increased the likelihood of a recoat succeeding by removing most of the contaminant. If the floor is "open" with lots of cracks filled with contaminant, it may require a resand and refinish.

Thanks all! I didn't realize that the product wasn't really for this time of year. I thought I was SO SMART to wait until most of the leaves were down (I didn't want to try to remove a blanket of leaves from the top of freshly laid mulch), and the temps are more comfortable for working outside. I usually mulch in the spring, but this last spring we didn't have a chance. In the future that's probably what I'll do. I won't spray any more, for sure! With the weather forecast here for the next few days, I guess we'll just have to proceed to proceed. Before Saturday, I may actually do a combination of these things --- there are few places that I really want it gone - like between shrubs that will be larger and probably almost touching next year. So in those places I may dig it out a little bit, or try the newspaper before the mulch. There's too much ground to cover with a lot of digging though. And there's going to be a LOT of mulch - so we'll have a pretty good layer (and some pretty sore muscles) and maybe that will combine to put an end to that grass. I'm excited to get this done... looking forward to spring... I'll try to post a photo when we get it mulched.