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Mole problem

nowthenourkidnowthenourkid Posts: 9
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Hi I have come across some Ukrainian mole poison on the net. Not sure whether to order some. Has anyone here tried it?
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  • nick615nick615 Posts: 1,487
    I haven't tried it but, bearing in mind it will probably be food based, and birds feed off similar items, I wouldn't do so?
  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    Probably anti personnel mines, not currently needed in the war.
    Why would anyone want Ukrainian mole poison?
    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
  • nowthenourkidnowthenourkid Posts: 9
    Maybe you've never had a mole problem. I certainly have and am willing to try anything. This stuff would be put below ground so won't be a problem for birds.
  • PosyPosy Posts: 3,601
    Better to get in a professional.  You know exactly what's involved and only the mole will be affected.
  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    It may well contain cyanide, in which case you will not only poison the moles, but every living creature in the vicinity and possibly yourself.
    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
  • ChezNousChezNous Posts: 40
    We had a terrible problem with moles a few years back and although we got in a professional to set traps, they still kept on coming in. We're close to a wooded area and one side of our fence is next to a foot path so in the end we had to put down barriers (slate as we happen to have a stack of them) below the whole length of the fence base boards. Touch wood, they've never been back.
    Late to gardening .... @cheznousgarden
  • nowthenourkidnowthenourkid Posts: 9
    I tried scissor traps but never had any luck with them.
  • UffUff Posts: 3,199
    Moles have an acute sense of smell. Professionals wear gloves and bury traps prior to using otherwise the moles just steer clear of them.  
    SW SCOTLAND but born in Derbyshire
  • ButtercupdaysButtercupdays Posts: 4,546
    As we're surrounded by farm land we usually just live with them. Our cat caught a couple earlier this year though and that has relieved the problem in one area, at least for a while.
  • bédébédé Posts: 3,095
    edited October 2022
    nowthenourkid said:
    I tried scissor traps but never had any luck with them.
    My grandparents gardener used spring traps (scissor?) for moles.  He showed me how to use them; it's not luck it's knowing what to do, and practice.

    Registered profesionals use Arsenic.

    Years back, when everyones approach to wildlife was different, I used proprietary worm-killer on my lawn.  I reasoned that if there were no worms, there would be no moles.  It worked.

     Old books say Potassium Permangate solution.  That brings them up to the surface where you have to pick them up.  

    Now I get the odd invasion, I just tread around to collapse the runs (where does all the soil go?).  In my lawn, I also get summer surface runs.  Beyond my lawn I don't worry.  The standard recommendation on this forum is "leave nature alone".


    I once got a book out of the local library.  "The mole" or something like that.  Only one person had had it out before me, and nobody else for ages (I checked).  Thus, I consider myself a local expert on moles.  

    You might be interested to know that, outside of the breeding season, moles are solitary and very aggressive to each other.  Each run of molehills contains only one mole.  And they can move at 4 mph under or above ground.
     location: Surrey Hills, England, ex-woodland acidic sand.
    "Have nothing in your garden that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."
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