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How to stop moles and voles

jlmaiklemjlmaiklem Posts: 2
in Problem solving
I had a real problem with moles digging up into my raised vegetable beds last year, along with voles and mice eating all my beetroot from above. Any advice please? I did wonder about digging rodent mesh down all around the edges of my vegetable patch and maybe have it as a fence too, any thoughts? Thank you

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  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    There are several threads on this topic if you do a search.  This is a recent one - https://forum.gardenersworld.com/discussion/comment/2288092#Comment_2288092 
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    edited February 2021


    Not sure it's more humane than guns, but hey ho.

  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    edited February 2021
    It is instant and more accurate than a shotgun in most hands but we stopped when we got our dog, 13 years ago now, as she has terrier genes and likes to dig up moles and we didn't want her being injured.   Now we just live with the moles and, occasionally, a corpse will appear after she or our new huntress cat has been busy.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • BobTheGardenerBobTheGardener Posts: 11,385
    Sorry, couldn't resist: :)

    There's Mad Moles in my Garden,
    They Party all night long,
    Dancing with the wiggly worms,
    They fill the night with song.
    There's Mad Moles underneath the Turf,
    They bump into the roots,
    They dance the Samba with the ants,
    And are never seen in suits.

    Some of them can breakdance,
    Or at least, it looks like that,
    Some move like they have got the fits,
    Or ants inside their pants.

    They dig up lumps of soil and dirt,
    Whilst jiving to the feeling,
    Of Lionel Richie's old Cd's,
    They're Dancing on the ceiling.

    Their Ceiling is the green, green grass,
    They lift it up in clumps,
    They are welcome in the forests,
    But not near cricket stumps.

    There's Mad Moles in my Garden,
    I really must evict them,
    I'm sticking things into the lawn,
    Just hoping to restrict them.

    They haven't moved away just yet,
    And burn the midnight oil,
    I really can't put up with it,
    They're messing up my soil.

    There's Mad Moles in my garden,
    It really is a sight,
    Maybe I should just join in,
    And party there tonight? ....

    A trowel in the hand is worth a thousand lost under a bush.
  • jlmaiklemjlmaiklem Posts: 2
    Thank you all, particularly like the poem!
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