I don't want to kill them....

[roitelet]

HELP please,

Can anyone tell what moles really dislike. I have used the 'bottle in the run' method which worked in Devon but French moles just don't seem to understand I have bought some commercial mole repellant which works up to a point but they come back after a while.

I have been told that Ferret phoo stuffed down the runs works but I can't get any.

There must be something that they really detest. I just want to encourage them to go and dig elsewhere. After all I am surrounded by fields so why do they have to push up hills in my grass It has taken me ages just to get it to a state where I can mow it.

I don't want a 'Lawn' just grass without huge lumps and bumps

Any suggestions????????????????????????/

[Lesley Jay]

You can buy mole bulbs which you plant - I assume that they give off a smell that the moles don't like from www.kenmuir.co.uk

[madderbat]

Some advise using ***** fluid to deter them and 'move them on' to a desired area - such as the field next door.
Have a look at the bottom of the page on this website for details

http://www.gardenadvice.co.uk/howto/...les/index.html

[roitelet]

Thanks LJ and MB,

I will try the ***** fluid method first as I imported a can from the UK. Can'tget it out here

[Peter]

French method read online

Don't the french use some sort of miniature landmine?

[roitelet]

Yes Peter, the garden centres are full of them but I don't want to kill them unless that is the last resort. Anyway ***** is cheaper

[rhubarbontoast]

Move to Ireland- we don't have any here. The local B and Q still stocks mole repellers though. They must wonder why they don't ever sell any :-)

[scarey55]

Sorry it has taken me so long to reply to this thread. I have the same problem as you Roitelet. A friend of mine told me that moth balls down the run is worth a try. I have had a go at this and it seems to work. Hard to believe but I am beginning to think that they have moved on. we also have about 7 mole repellers in our "garden" but the little bu**!rs just seem to be attracted to them rather than being repelled. OH did try the mini land mine thing but he ended up blowing most of them up BEFORE he got them into the mole runs and ended up rather deaf for a while :

[Hazel at the Hill]

Saw an article in the paper today (no, letter, I think) which reckoned that a siamese cat weeing on (in?) in mole hill repelled them - yet another use for that versatile product, male wee???

[scared55]

Don't want to kill them? I do, but Scarey55 won't let me.

[Sebbster]

12 bore.....

[roitelet]

Tried all methods of discouraging the Moles and have finally had to give in to mole traps as they are now not just a pest but are really doing some damage.

So, I went and bought 4 mole traps of the scissor type and the necessary plier things to set them with and some of the little square things that hold the jaws open. I set them on Friday and checked them today.

Result - One educated mole had dug round the trap without springing it , one trap had sprung but a stone had got caught in the jaws so it didn't close properly , one hadn't gone off and the last one had lost the marker I put in so I couldn't find the trap .

Reset the remaining three traps and will leave them for the nest week with BIG markers and see what happens. However there are still lots of mole hills appearing anywhere but where I have set the traps (really).

[bubblewrap]

A friend's parents whose garden I help out with have had the mole man out 4 times result... Tunnels under the lawn like the London tube & NO MOLE KILLED

[roitelet]

Thanks BW, cleared about 50 mole hills yesterday so think that I have the London Underground system AND the Paris Metro under the grass but as yet no dead moles. Will just have to wait and see

[roitelet]

Just an update.

Having given up on Mole traps I have resorted to Mole Fuses which I put in yesterday in the hope that if the gas doesn't actually kill them then the smell will send them elsewhere.

I attacked three patches and this morning there is no evidence of activity in two of them .

Could I be winning??????????????????