How do you all control/remove moles from your garden/allotment? I,ve relocated them when we,ve caught them but they always seem to make their way back!! I can,t sit there with a fork all the time(my prefered way!!) and poisons do not appeal.They make a real mess of my deep/raised beds when they arrive on the hunt.I would rather not kill them if I can avoid it but sometimes have to or I,ll have no crops.I,m not normally too bothered about killing pests (I,m happy to cull the Magpie population and the Jays, both to save the songbird population locally) but moles ??
If you open the mole hill and pour urine down ( they dont like the smell of it) and they move on you may have to do it to each mole hill but cheap and does not harm them or anything else. Morning samples are the strongest so get peeing in a bucket and collect in milk containers ( carmaglage ) good luck. you must have a good supply of worms on your lottie. ;D
I leave them to enjoy themselves, they do very little damage.
i have moles on my plot but i don't bother them, i've not had them do any damage other than the odd tunnel causing a few plants to topple over.
Quote from: BTMR on October 12, 2009, 15:26:30
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I don't know why we're getting these obviously commercial posts.
I advised BTMR a couple of days ago that commercial advertising isn't welcome. I'm keeping an eye on it.
I have regular mole visitors. They tunnel under the lawn and make molehills which are unsightly and can kill the grass if left. Thetunnels collapse and make trences which if stepped in by teh unwary can give a nasty jar to foot or back and my back is dodgy enough already. In the borders they tunnel through roots and lift new plants so do damage there and it's the same in the fruit and veg garden.
I have found two live ones above surdface and relocated them to woods across a nearby stream. Other than that, it's war. Here in Belgium we can buy a device that blows the perishers up so they become compost. It's called a détaupeur and you can google for info but I belive they're not legal in the UK.
I tried humane traps to no avail and the usual tricks such as urine, empty bottles, moth balls, sonic scarers. The blaster is the best although our recently acquired dog is very good at unearthing them - with disastrous colateral damage to the lawn and borders. If you can find a mole catcher, he'll be worth his fee.
Like I say, I love the little chaps, but if you have to, this is the standard work on the subject (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fePU5CIHpas).
Unwashed it's always good to watch that again and have a good laugh! :)
Naff,
This subject has been on before.
I used to use a very effective 'Pill' which one has to have a licence for.
Won't expand on this. It's evil but effective.
Trouble is - if you study the antics of the little buggers - the progeny always return!!
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Young moles move around a lot looking for a territory, and I think they're fussy about soil conditions. There have been moles in exactly the same restricted areas in Oxford since I was a kid. So if you have the right conditions for them, you're always liable to have another move in.