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Produce => Pests & Diseases => Topic started by: ancellsfarmer on April 25, 2013, 23:58:36

Title: Onions & shallots are up!
Post by: ancellsfarmer on April 25, 2013, 23:58:36
Visited the top of my plot today to discover setts planted in early February are up! About 1" above the overall surface.
A bl**&y mole has cruised along the surface raising the rows about the diameter of a mole. No molehills, just a loose line. Guess he wont go deep for fear of drowning. What do we know about moles? Any fixes in this case?
Title: Re: Onions & shallots are up!
Post by: cornykev on April 26, 2013, 05:40:34
My Shallots at my plot are all shooting the onions shouldn't  be far behind.     :toothy10:
Title: Re: Onions & shallots are up!
Post by: brown thumb on April 26, 2013, 07:25:09
Mines going great guns down here in the not so sunny and cold  cornwall
Title: Re: Onions & shallots are up!
Post by: Paulines7 on April 26, 2013, 09:50:32
Some of my onions are showing but no sign of those I sowed first.  They are there though as I had a look for them and dug one up.  No sign of my garlic though, but on further investigation, they are still there and the bulbs are looking healthy still.
Title: Re: Onions & shallots are up!
Post by: cambourne7 on April 26, 2013, 14:49:35
Mine are up which is a surprise as they only went in 2 weeks ago :)
Title: Re: Onions & shallots are up!
Post by: Nomspatch on April 26, 2013, 15:26:58
Mine are up too...they went in about 3 weeks ago...in fact they are all about 3 inches tall now!
Moles, we had em a few years ago..I bought a Mole detterent that is battery run , you push the tube into the soil and it vibrates at intervals ....they definitely do not like it.they fled sharpish...
Title: Re: Onions & shallots are up!
Post by: brown thumb on April 26, 2013, 18:17:50
I`ve got moles in my lotty what i did was too buy kids cheap wind mills from the pound shop and placed them in the runs or hills
Title: Re: Onions & shallots are up!
Post by: Nomspatch on April 26, 2013, 21:30:18
It is also aid that burying a bottle in the run/hill upright with an open neck makes a sound they don't like and they scarper not tried that one myself though..