Oh no!!!

[Skipper]

ARRRRRGH!!!!!!!!.
Now Ive got one, a mole that is, and not the little brown ones that you have on your skin.This is one of those little furry critters that overnight leaves a mountain range on your lawn as a calling card: 210ltrs of water from one water butt went down the newest hole in the line end of mole? if only. 2days later fresh earth was pushed up from the same hole,I swear its got an oxygen bottle on its back and a face mask and is using the tunnel as a flume I will not surrender. Its had a shot across the bows now its a full broadside. 420ltrs down the same hole it will be washed into the next county,dont mess with me Mr/Mrs/Ms mole

[Mrs Dobby]

Lol Skipper! Good luck with getting rid of the pesky varmint! Have to say I like Jasper Carrots solution, sit on a swinging bar stool, with a shotgun and torch taped to the end, one sight of offending mole and 'BANG', end of problem! (Mind you, picking up bloody bits of mole spread all over the plot may not be too much fun! lol!

[nick the grief]

Small stick of Dynamite in the run will sort it out & you get a free water feature at the end

[Alice]

Hello Skipper, yes moles do create havoc. As I see it you have 2 choices. You can decide the damage is not all that bad and just learn to love them and live with them. Or you may decide the damage is not sufferable and arrange to kill them. The choice is yours. I've had them but have never had to kill them. But I can see how they could become a major pest.

[jlottie]

Skipper

I have to agree with Alice, and there isn't any way to scare them off. All these ideas of mole deterrents just don't work, its traps or poison I'm afraid

[Skipper]

I feel guilty now. I will poke a pair of water wings down the hole, that will enable me to sleep easy.

[SueA]

Just read in a gardening mag. of a couple who swear by putting a large plastic drink bottle on a stick pushed into the mole hill with flaps cut out of the sides of the bottle to act as wings & spin the bottle round in the wind. They say that the moles left & when they removed the bottles they returned.

[CarolineSonning]

Just read in a gardening mag. of a couple who swear by putting a large plastic drink bottle on a stick pushed into the mole hill with flaps cut out of the sides of the bottle to act as wings & spin the bottle round in the wind. They say that the moles left & when they removed the bottles they returned.

Ok that could lead to some interesting looking lawns around the country - maybe you could convince people that they were mini wind turbines .

[annie trip]

Just got a few new mole hills myself recently and as yet havent dug my old trap out, just using the nice soil but really hope it doesnt settle here....

[Waffler]

Just looked up mole deterrents:
1. Sink plastic bottles in to their holes with the lids off - the sound of the wind blowing over will annoy them;
2. Plant caper spurge near their hole - they hate the smell;
3. Set an alarm clock and put it down their hole - after one alarm call they will probably move out. LOL!
I'm all in favour of using humane deterrents - but then it's not me with the problem (I have cats! - another deterrent).

[Snadger]

Just looked up mole deterrents:
1. Sink plastic bottles in to their holes with the lids off - the sound of the wind blowing over will annoy them;
2. Plant caper spurge near their hole - they hate the smell;
3. Set an alarm clock and put it down their hole - after one alarm call they will probably move out. LOL!
I'm all in favour of using humane deterrents - but then it's not me with the problem (I have cats! - another deterrent).

Before you can put alarm clocks or bottles up there holesyou have to catch them first! Lol

[annie trip]

Ha H a snadger very funny!!! Have cats too but too bloody soft they even get bullied by the chickens!!

[Waffler]

Before you can put alarm clocks or bottles up there holesyou have to catch them first! Lol

Good one!

[dexterdoglancashire]

Snadger methinks your "funny bone" has been working overtime today! well done! DDL

[Lesley Jay]

Nice one Snadger!