Moles!!

[Flowers73752]

Hi have just moved into a house which backs onto a field. We are waking up to mole hills in the garden! Have used mole repellent from Wilkos on the soil which I thought worked until this morning when another hill has appeared. Has anyone else had a similar problem and found a solution?!

The two Ms are the only thing that solve moles

1. Murder
2. Move out of the country

As I can't do either of the above I have to resign myself to mole hills.

Don’t have this issue myself, but perhaps an underground sonic device?

Moles are very good for your garden! They aerate the soil, eat a lot of grubs and pests, and the molehills make excellent potting compost.

Yes we have moles. Nothing you do gets rid of them. My lawn is damaged and my flower beds loose the occasional plant. At the moment mr moley is being quiet but I know he is lurking. They will turn you into the Jasper carrott sketch. Oh I remember crying with laughter at that sketch but now it is me 😐

If you know the right people you can get them removed for £10 a mole

If you start feeling particularly murderous towards them there is always the rodenator....

I remember an interview with a mole catcher, years ago. He charged households on one side of a valley to catch and remove their moles. He drove round and released them on the other side of the valley. Then charged their households to do the same in reverse. He called it job security…!

When I was a kid I knew someone who kept one as a pet in a big tank of soil. We used to leave worms on the top. Sorry no advice though 🤣

@Babdoc

Moles are very good for your garden! They aerate the soil, eat a lot of grubs and pests, and the molehills make excellent potting compost.

Hahahahaha!!!

You should have seen the mess that one mole caused in our garden over our week away on holiday. It was utter carnage. Fortunately NDN's cat caught and killed it. (Actually I think it was probably the cat that caught it and let it go still alive in the first place).

I think they tend to move around lots making new tunnels, then are inactive. If you kill them another one will pooltle along into the tunnel and move around more leaving more hills. I find stamping the hills down and reseeding tends to discourage them as they like to be able to stick their heads up into the loose soil. My cat will pick a mole hill and sit watching it for hours and every now and again catches one when it pokes its head up.
You could also try putting an empty wine bottle into the mole hill as apparently when the wind blows over the open bottle neck it makes a noise that deters them. Having said that this may just make them move around more thus making more mess.

Years ago, MIL reclaimed a farm field as a garden, and was struggling to create a decent lawn on the thin moorland hillside. But once some moles moved in and turned over the soil, she ended up with a lovely sward. They aerated and fertilised it nicely. She didn’t mind the odd molehill - the gardener flattened them anyway when he rode over them on the mower.