Well, my sad little tale.....last late spring, whilst digging my new number 2 plot, I unearthed lots of dry grass, flipped it onto the top of the soil, and thought nothing of it, carried on digging as you do. It wasn't until I came back along the row, I turned out some more from below the surface and my dim brain thought....'ooo, what is straw doing beneath the surface.' I'll tell you what it was doing, it was a moles nursery! Three little teeny baby moles turfed up in the late spring sunshine! What to do, what to do! Well, I carried them to the shadey side of my plot and left them at the bottom of a pile of grass cuttings and walked away. In the great scheme of things, I figured either mummy mole would come get them and take them beneath ground or slowworm/adder/foxy/magpie would come take them for lunch. As allotmenteers we are constantly upsetting the balance and then trying to put it right again, so I felt that even if they died and were eaten, they were staying in the food chain and somehow, somewhere, it all works out..... Does my rambling make sense?? Don't feel sad, when the mice are eating your pea seeds come spring, you will be moaning like hell about them!!! ;D
