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Moles in the garden

SmallcopperSmallcopper Posts: 34
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Hi everyone, we have recently started seeing molehills and feeling some tunnels near the surface of the grass in our garden. Wondering what others have done (or not done!)? Thank you in advance
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  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    I've had some hills erupt in some really annoying places but generally I love moles so I put up with it. The molehills at my parents' place provide some of the best potting compost I can get so no complaints there either.
    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • nick615nick615 Posts: 1,487
    Smallcopper  It all depends whether you want to remove them completely.  If you do, the most humane way is to shoot them, but that will depend on the area you live in and if firing a 12-bore would be permitted.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Pickled onions … PICKLED ONIONS!!?! If the moles don’t want them can I have them …. pleeeeeease 🙏 😍 😋 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    Dovefromabove said:
    Pickled onions … PICKLED ONIONS!!?! If the moles don’t want them can I have them …. pleeeeeease 🙏 😍 😋 
    I could murder a ploughman's now :#

    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    With Stilton and Brie de meaux, please.
    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    My cat’s caught two today. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Think we should remember that moles eat chafer grubs  … and of course other grubs living under our lawns and borders … vine weevil grubs are caviar to them. 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • SmallcopperSmallcopper Posts: 34
    Thanks everyone, appreciate the comments. I'd really rather not kill or trap them, just not sure how bad it'll get if I leave them alone. 
  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    Lyn said:
    My cat’s caught two today. 
    Pickled onions?

    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • Busy-LizzieBusy-Lizzie Posts: 24,043
    Moles have caused so much damage in my flower beds, undermining plants and killing them that eventually I resorted to mole traps and have killed three. Didn't want to, but getting desperate, it's an expensive business. They had killed 6 fuchsia riccartinii and a caryopteris, among a list of other plants.
    Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
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