Sonia M asked:
I’m trying to get rid of moles from my newly landscaped garden, i dont care how i do it but i have tried grub killer, the traps, jeyes fluid but its one determined little ******! I’m thinking of making my own tool of a pogo stick with spikes but knowing my luck i’ll be the injured one!!! Does anyone have a proven method? Any suggestions anyone????
Thank you for your replys, im busy on the potions and methods all offered appreciate it!
I’m trying to get rid of moles from my newly landscaped garden, i dont care how i do it but i have tried grub killer, the traps, jeyes fluid but its one determined little ******! I’m thinking of making my own tool of a pogo stick with spikes but knowing my luck i’ll be the injured one!!! Does anyone have a proven method? Any suggestions anyone????
Thank you for your replys, im busy on the potions and methods all offered appreciate it!
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Move on moles tonic >> 1 cup dish soap liquid, 1 cup castor oil, 2 tbsp of alum (disolved in hot water) mix in watwr sprayewr and saturate areas. ALSO have heard of putting chewing gum in tunnel. I guess they eat and cant digest it. Another recipe is >> 1 and half hot sauce, 1tbsp liquid dish soap 1 tsp chili powder, 1 qt water, mix and pour in runways, wont kill just run them off. I used moth balls in tunnels also once long time ago.
Chemicals and grub killers and other stuff rarely, if ever, work on moles in my experience, and sometimes will end up screwing up your garden more than they do the mole (all those chemicals are terrible for the plants). I’d say continue trying to trap – it is the ONLY proven method I have had in all my years of gardening, and I have plenty of friends that can attest to this.
First off, moles basically live on a diet of earthworms, so using grub killers and other chemicals to get rid of its diet won’t work. You *want* earthworms for the garden since they keep the soil fresh. Other chemicals, toxins, poisons will have a bad effect on the plants if you keep using them.
The thing about moles is that they tend to try to re-use tunnels they’ve already dug. has a LOT of good information and he recommends some good traps. Personally I prefer humane ones because I **** killing anything…so I would really recommend to you to try trapping them while they’re alive and releasing them somewhere else, after all they’re not evil or malicious, they’re just doing what moles do – we’re the ones putting gardens over their territories!
This is the trapper I use, it’s cheap, humane, and re-usable, and a lot less dangerous than the killing traps (you can really injure yourself, trust me…). When you use them use gloves like the website suggests or else your smell might get on it and make moles avoid it. Try putting some earthworms into the trap, too, to lure the moles in it.
After that use some heavy leather gloves to release the mole elsewhere (don’t worry, you don’t have to handle the mole directly, the gloves are just in case).
Good luck.
Have you tried putting HAIR in their runs. The can’t seem to handle hair. It drives them nuts.