Mole!

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I have a mole on my allotment. He's burrowing through my peas and has dug up some onions.

Is there an effective way of detering him (preferably humanely)?

ahhh, no idea but I bet its cute!

Suspect he is quite cute - but of course, I only see his, not so cute, handiwork. If only I could encourage himto sytematically dig the un-dug areas, but he seems to gravitate to the newly dug by me parts.

Trouble is Cali, the only person I know whose tried one of those seemed to think it attracted them rather than deterred them! I do like the idea of something unbrutal though...

No such thing as a cute mole - not here anyway. I've struggled but finally called in the mole murderer. We've always had moles, but until the last few months have been reasonably quiet - however my lawn now looks like a ploughed field and to walk on it is to put your life at risk - it's like a potholed road. I've just taken 4 barrows of molemountain off, and am about half way through the job - the blighter has gone through all my newly sown grass - I spent hours making it level - and now it's a complete mess. Mole man has caught one so far, and thinks there may be another - I do feel bad, but it has got to the point that every time I mowed the lawn the blade would be knackered because it's so uneven. I'm not after a bowling green, or cricket square, just a reasonably level lawn. I know another mole will move in, but hopefully not for a while, and I can live with a few heaps, just not a whole bloody lawn full!

Maybe an old wives tale but someone told me that a childs toy windmill inserted in a fresh mound vibrates and scares the mole off If that doesn't work Jays fluid into a tunnel!!! (not human I know)!

I scare ours off with a long bamboo (about 8ft, but we have them on tap as have a bamboo plant) put in the hole then pop a rattley empty baked bean tin on the end. - it works probably the same principle as the windmill. Careful though, dh removed all 3 and he's back.

Our last garden was infested with moles, and the mole-murdering-man we had round every 6 months said nothing other than gassing the little buggers works if they have an established patch of runs. If you are next to a plot where moles are active you will get young male moles in your garden on a regular basis looking for a new home.

We found that the mole repellers didn't work. The only thing to stop moles was getting the moleman in to gas them every so often.