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Moles
Villaverde123
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I hate moles! that is all!!
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Villaverde123
Posts: 196
Villaverde123
Posts: 196
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........ and breathe ......
Perhaps this'll help
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I have them on my allotment garden, last year they just about ruined everything by tunneling under my beds !
I asked my partner to put some traps down this year but it fell on deaf ears.
But then yesterday while i was at the allotment i saw movement on a banking and it was a little mole tunneling along. when i told my partner he said i should have hit it with a spade, when i replied that i couldn't possilbly do that as it was so cute he said well don't ask me to get rid of them then. so the moles remain!
What can i say.....
Thank God, its the one animal that has not invaded this green and plesent land .
unlike what the "Romans" gave us , "Slugs and Snails" (through your goodselfs of course)
Yes Dove, I came in and had a nice cuppa and a cool down!!
I suspect I have at least five of the little buggers on 1/3 of an acre. Main damage is to the 7 raised beds. Three traps constantly set and You tube videos watched.
They keep upending all the plants so I feel I am doing stuff five times over. I know they are cute but I don't want them!
Rant over! Onwards and Upwards ...
They eat worms which are so essential to healthy soil. They upend plants. They leave precious roots dangling in air when they tunnel and the plant withers and dies. They undermine the lawn which is then dangerous to walk on because of turned ankles or twisted knees or jolted vertebrae.
When they move on to new tunnels, other rodents from voles to rats move in to their tunnels and then eat roots and bulbs and then the dog hears the critters moving around underground and tries to dig them out and the place looks like a bombsite.
Nothing at all cute or lovable about moles.
If the cat or dog catch and kill one they don't even eat it as they taste so bad and the crows don't pick off the corpse either.
Nothing at all cute or lovable about moles.
If I find a live one I relocate it across the neighbouring paddock in the hope it won't work its way back across the stream. When they drive me to extremes I get out the mole blaster because, tho I try to live and let live, the moles haven't read that manual and sometimes, as with rats, enough is enough.
Moles nearly caused my baby hedge to disappear before it had even got going, and the squirrels joined in the fun by pulling up the loosened plants. I covered every plant with a wire cage which was firmly attached to the soil with very long wire staples. It did the trick and the hedge is now 8 feet tall. The mole(s) moved to pastures new but they could return......its enough to make a person wake up in a cold sweat.
VV, my heart goes out to you, I hate to use the word hate about such an industrious little creature......just got back to the dacha to find these mini mountains , the Russian moles must use heavy equipment to do their bidding ....even though this is an unkempt part of our garden it still riles and know a nice cup of tea does not ease the frustration
We had 6 new molehills and a visible tunnel in a corner of our lawn this morning. I've put the batteries on to charge for the mole blaster because, as they say around here "ils exagèrent!"
There are also new hills along the railway sleeper edging between border and grass and great holes underneath where I'm trying to plant new treasures. Not remotely cute or amusing.
CN.....classic....but as an Irishman residing in Russia ......think of the consequences