Would you believe it! I've just called in some assistance and there has been no activity from the moles for 3 days now! I'm keeping everything crossed that they have finished with my lawn before putting evil smelling things down their tunnels.
However I press the mole hills down and I have found if there are tunnelling where you don't want them to I just keep pushing stones in the ground and they tunnel some where else
You should see my garden ! Mole hills all over the lawn. I have a half acre plot and the little blighter has pretty much made a home in most of it. Where would be the best place to put a trap. I have visions of the mole listening from one end of the garden and almost making a mockery out of what I am trying to do And what do I do with the mole once I catch it in the humane trap? How do I re-home it! Help
The moles can dig up the grass as much as they like, but the ones in my garden have ruined (killed) the Iris garden. There is nothing left, not even the £250 to replace Daphne Jacqueline Postil.
The have also destroyed the Water Meter bed and exposed the water pipes,so I have to clear out the whole area and put down wire netting and put back the soil, just so as the pipes remain hidden.
They have undermined one area of alpine plants so badly that the rocks have now sunk and in doing so exposed the roots of about £1,000 of plants.
The have now moved into the central island bed and so far all they have done is to tunnel along the edge and covered over a few thousand Scilla tubergeniana, but they will no doubt move inwards and eventually kill the trees and shrubs in there too.
And you say live and let live? Tell that to the moles.
And stones might work for others but the area of the garden they are destroying has only about 6 to 9 inches of soil above a 12 to 24 inch layer of brick rubble and house foundations. It does not stop them, but it makes finding the runs hard.
I have not even mention what they are doing to the Snowdrop Wood either.
The question of moles came up in Gardner's question time last week and Pippa Greenwod said the only time she managed to get the moles to disappear was when her children were racing around in the garden making the ground vibrate. I have had a mole in my garden now since before Christmas and I suspect when I get out in the spring and start crashing about and cutting the grass that it will go somewhere else (I hope).
Berghill you do seem to have a problem , the only person I know who permanently stopped moles in his garden sunk slabs into the garden , like an under ground wall , then got those left inside killed , a bit drastic but !
II wish I had a solution because twisted ankles and falls are a real issue. Most activity happens out of sight.
I think gardens and allotments take more of a hit because the soil condition is improved: providing more invertebrate food for the moles. My last garden was compacted subsoil clay with no loam or worms, and thus no moles.
If someone has experienced moles they could not say plant flowers and shrubs to be stunted and die though lack of root development and water.
If you grow your own and are invaded, you find fruit bushes that do not fruit, onions and vegetables stunted, seeds and seedlings vanish, beans that just suddenly wilt midseason, carrots and parsnips that turn into spikey spiders, brassica that do not form hearts (they need firm soil), and more. And this happens out of sight.
A suggestion I will try this year is to set open plastic bottles 2/3 into the ground. The wind blowing over the top is supposed to make an annoying noise.
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When I see molehills in fields they make me smile - one little creature doing so much damage - it's audaciously cheeky.
That said, I'd be really annoyed if it happened on my lawn!
Would you believe it! I've just called in some assistance and there has been no activity from the moles for 3 days now! I'm keeping everything crossed that they have finished with my lawn before putting evil smelling things down their tunnels.
However I press the mole hills down and I have found if there are tunnelling where you don't want them to I just keep pushing stones in the ground and they tunnel some where else
The moles can dig up the grass as much as they like, but the ones in my garden have ruined (killed) the Iris garden. There is nothing left, not even the £250 to replace Daphne Jacqueline Postil.
The have also destroyed the Water Meter bed and exposed the water pipes,so I have to clear out the whole area and put down wire netting and put back the soil, just so as the pipes remain hidden.
They have undermined one area of alpine plants so badly that the rocks have now sunk and in doing so exposed the roots of about £1,000 of plants.
The have now moved into the central island bed and so far all they have done is to tunnel along the edge and covered over a few thousand Scilla tubergeniana, but they will no doubt move inwards and eventually kill the trees and shrubs in there too.
And you say live and let live? Tell that to the moles.
And stones might work for others but the area of the garden they are destroying has only about 6 to 9 inches of soil above a 12 to 24 inch layer of brick rubble and house foundations. It does not stop them, but it makes finding the runs hard.
I have not even mention what they are doing to the Snowdrop Wood either.
The question of moles came up in Gardner's question time last week and Pippa Greenwod said the only time she managed to get the moles to disappear was when her children were racing around in the garden making the ground vibrate. I have had a mole in my garden now since before Christmas and I suspect when I get out in the spring and start crashing about and cutting the grass that it will go somewhere else (I hope).
Berghill you do seem to have a problem , the only person I know who permanently stopped moles in his garden sunk slabs into the garden , like an under ground wall , then got those left inside killed , a bit drastic but !
Bit hard to do that round about an acre of land, surrounded by fields full of mole hills.
I agree
You have my sympathy
II wish I had a solution because twisted ankles and falls are a real issue. Most activity happens out of sight.
I think gardens and allotments take more of a hit because the soil condition is improved: providing more invertebrate food for the moles. My last garden was compacted subsoil clay with no loam or worms, and thus no moles.
If someone has experienced moles they could not say plant flowers and shrubs to be stunted and die though lack of root development and water.
If you grow your own and are invaded, you find fruit bushes that do not fruit, onions and vegetables stunted, seeds and seedlings vanish, beans that just suddenly wilt midseason, carrots and parsnips that turn into spikey spiders, brassica that do not form hearts (they need firm soil), and more. And this happens out of sight.
A suggestion I will try this year is to set open plastic bottles 2/3 into the ground. The wind blowing over the top is supposed to make an annoying noise.
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