A Pesky MOLE How To Get Shut Of

[jacob marley]

We have a mole that has decided to take up residence in the garden and he is making a mess it has gone under a slab pathway and back again .
It is driving Old Gal Marley crackers she has tried flooding it out with the hosepipe and yesterday she was told about using mothballs she put some down in the run last evening and lo and behold it chucked one back this morning.
I told her he was sending a message so all you wise people on this super grape vine we want some help fast :confused..:..jacob

[FionaH]

YouTube - Jasper Carrott - The Mole - Animated

Funniest sketch ever

Hope someone comes along with sensible advice soon

[vicky]

Folk lore has it that they can't stand the smell from Euphorbias (that'll probably be shoved through your letterbox the next day...)

[PAULW]

Moles work three times a day 7,11 and 4 in the afternoon, out you go with a spade and wait till the mole starts pushing the soil up and down you come with the back of the spade and pan the mole hill, then put the spade in under the hill and lift out ex mole skin and pin skin to a board to dry cant remember the size but will check and come back.

[snuffer]

If your intention is just to encourage the mole to go elsewhere rather than kill it then you might try this. I have had some success by digging down under the mole hill to find the tunnel and then (not nice this bit) emptying the contents of the cat litter tray into it. It is not a permenant solution but does get rid of them for a while.

[jackie j]

I have a mole around my lottie plot, it tries to get between the step and flagstone but doesnt succeed one day my shed might dissapear down the mole hole. On a newbie plot they have worked really hard to get things done and it is the most imaculate new plot in a short period of time I have ever seen, then mr mole decided to make an appearance, holes everywhere.

[roitelet]

Rags soaked in petrol or better still deisel will put the little blighter off. Or, if you have a friend with ferrets some of their stinky litter will do the trick.

[brooklynodog]

Ive got one on my lottie plot, little b****r ploughs along the edge of my raised beds, but on the path side!!

[pip1954]

moles DID YOU SAY MOLES sorry to shout but they drive me nuts (nervus tic) not to bad this year but last year few years they have made my lawn into a mine field,
i did catch one when it first came to the garden but it looked so cute i let it go in the field next door but guess what the little bu**ER CAME BACK !!
so i used to play flaten the mole hill very often.
i remember jasper carrot mole sketch ,but they drive you nuts, i to have been in the garden stalking the mole waiting for it to appear with a spade also tried with a fork( picture me with a fork frantickly stabbing the ground all round the mole hill, believe me if you have had moles you will understand.
in the end i did what you have already done i put the hose on and sat back and waited and waited but nothing but the good news is we only very rarly get a visit

[bubblewrap]

A friend of mine had "the velvet gentleman" too who dug a scale replica of London's underground system under his lawn.

[Glutton4...]

I know a lady who collects the Mole-hill soil and uses it to pot on plants! One day she'll get up and her whole garden will have dropped six inches LOL!

There's one advantage to heavy clay soil - no Moles!!!

[jacob marley]

Thank you very much for all your hints and tips but tomorow i am going to the local Country store and i am going to buy a mole trap .
And we are on heavy Clay but that ain't stopped it ....jacob

[mogs]

I am over-run with moles on my allotment - I have even watched them tunnelling through the beds. I'm loathe to kill them and to this end have tried moth balls, petrol rags, vibrating wotsits, but nothing makes them move on. I saw an ad for anti mole bulbs, and searching t'internet it seems these are allium moly bulbs, anti mole bulbs £15, allium moly £1.35!! It looks like a wild garlic type plant - have ordered some to plant in each bed and am crossing my fingers and toes, although reports differ from superb to useless. Has anyone tried them? I have been shouting down the holes that if they don't go, they die, but again not much use - I'm getting worried now I'll have to carry out my threats for fear of looking a soft touch.

[jacob marley]

Well i was beginning to think that pesky critter reads the grape vine because it stopped making mountains gone to ground so to speak.
Any way it surpassed itself this afternoon a bl**dy great mountain so the trap is going in tomorrow so its time is nearly up....jacob

[moola]

our local pest control chap round here treats moles and rats the same. Blocks off/fills in all but one sticks a load of petrol down and sets light. Nasty but effective apparently....