to wonder where all my water is going...................

[psychomum5]

...........we have moles.

lovely creatures, I am sure, but not when they have dug up my garden lots in the past 3wks, and have left a nice pattern of 6 hills across the poor wasteland of what is left of my lawn, especially when said 'lawn' is now 12ft square (roughly) after the garden has been taken over by DH's shed and building aquipment, plus the childrens bikes, while he builds our extension.

DH is sick of the moles.

so am I

so DH went onto the lovely WWW to find ways of ridding ourselves of them.

he found flooding them out to be the least traumatic...........you flood the holes, they pop up, you catch them, and take them far far far away to a lovely field so that they can have fun frolicking in new holes making new babies..........nowhere near to us!

problem now is that said flooding is not going as planned.

we have had the hose down the one hole for over an hour, no sign of it filling up, no sign of moles sticking heads up out of other holes, so where is the water going??

DS2 is pondering if the holes go thru to australia at the moment. I am wondering if he is right!!!

Get a solar mole deterrent. Green circular top with a solar panel and a spike that goes into the ground. Read the instructions (includes helpful stuff like not bunging it in the middle of the molehills as that just scatters them) and away you go! Definitely works in my garden, it was like the Great Escape a few feet under the surface before!

now that would have been a fine idea wouldn;t it!!

doesn;t help with where the water is tho

I guess that if you have a snady or peaty soil the water would run away faster than you could flood the holes. I live in the Fens and that would certainly be the case round here.

Sandy, sandy soil not snady. I really must learn to proof read better.

I don;t think I do. seems like normal dirt/soil to me (altho not a gardner so completely clueless on soil types anyway).

I still think it is runnning out a hole in australia

Dumping them in someone's field....

Either buy a mole trap or wait till dusk when they pop up and smack them with a shovel. Please don't dump them in some poor sod's field.

do all field belong to someone then??

genuine Q. I was thinking that the field near to us was kind'a like anyones to use. like free ground IYGWIM.

how would we know??

not that it would matter now, the moles are not appearing. they have fallen out in Aus after all

and is smacking them with a shovel better than dumping them to have fun elsewhere??

Oh to be organised enough to CAT one of the Aussie lot to pop up tomorrow with a thread entitled "Help - we seem to have developed a mole and flooding problem overnight!"

Mole traps. It is the only way.

@ buda

of mole traps......

Nor reports of moles or flooding in Australia this morning then?

I have to confess that I did look out the window this morning wondering if maybe we had floated away during the night......