What if anything do I do about Mole hills?

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Two mole hills have appeared in the garden.

I don't think I'm bothered by them, but when I have mentioned it to people they all seem to think that I am about to be over run and it will become a problem.

They are about a foot away from the fence, the other side is a scientific interest protected (can't remember they real name) area.

Will they be a problem? And what should I do?

I'm inclined to leave it be, but am I being silly not to take action before they move in? I don't really know what moles will do.

There is a lot of wildlife (a farm and the scientific interest area) and my own pets to consider too if I was to do something.

I'm just a bit clueless about them

If you don,t take action your lawn will resemble a mud mountain!
We had a mole hill and within a month we had near on twenty!
We got an old chap in from the village who made some sort of potion up from rhubarb leaves which he poured into the mud.
The mole died but we did have to returf!
I think now in some of the sunday mags you can get humane mole battery things that move the mole on, prehaps into your neighbours garden lol

I was prepared to tolerate the mole, even when my children started making mud pies and stomping molehill through house.

Sadly for the mole, I was NOT prepared to tolerate the neighbour's bastarding cat shitting in every single one the molehills so that my son repeatedly ended up with cat poo all over his hands whilst I was heavily pregnant .

I paid a slightly sinister man £70 to kill the moles with instant-death traps. Took about week, he got two of them, no more shithills in my garden.

I asked if he'd do me a discount rate for the bastarding cat as well but he thought I was joking. I wasn't, the bastarding thing has attacked my poor ailing moggy so many times she now refuses to leave the house

Morning, thanks for the replies!

So I need to do something then. I don't fancy a mud mountain or a cat toilet.

I think I will have a look into the protection order on the area in front and see what I am allowed to do/use and investigate a man with a plan.

Is it wrong that all I can think about is wind in the willows?

Just totted them up and I have 41 in my garden, we 're moving house in a few weeks though so it's not my problem fortunately, it's my landlady's! They do seem to multiply at an alarming rate though, so you are right to be looking into this! Good luck!

Mole traps are inexpensive and you can get them from a hardware store. If you follow where the mole is running, dig about 3-6 inches until the run is exposed, set the trap then cover the dug up area with some grass.
There are all sorts of tales about how you should not touch the traps/ weather them for months etc but I caught two moles very quickly after buying the traps that day.

I successfully used Jeyes fluid after reading the tip here:

www.gardenadvice.co.uk/howto/pests/moles/index.html

"The GardenAdvice preferable method is to move the moles on into a more suitable area such as a meadow or out of the garden... We achieve this by using jeyes fluid which is a chemical that has been used for gardeners for over 50 years for a whole range of tasks including sterilising pots and soil, controlling moss and a whole host of other uses. We simply find the run open the highest end up and using a watering can pour in a strong mix of jeyes fluid and water (1 ; 20 ) With the mole having a highly developed sense of smell it tends to drive them away from their current location. To make sure they are going in the right direction we also water a band across the lawn or bed (using a diluted mix 1:40) to form a barrier against the mole moving in an undesired direction. Over about 10 days we continue this operation until the move has moved on or at least into a less damaging area."

Friends of mine have also used this method succesfully.

41 flippin 'eck .

Well there are still only 2 here so far!

I think I will try the Jeyes fluid first, as they are only just a foot inside my garden, and hopefully I can chase them back into the area in front, or the farm.

If that fails then I will look into more severe forms of dissuasion.

I've just driven home from work and have noticed how many mole hills there are around the place. And how many there are together. I think I will be very bothered if my garden ends up looking like some of the embankments I saw today.

Pah there is always something isn't there!