Moles

BeverleyJB

A keen gardener friend of mine told me that moles hate vibration and noise. He used to part bury a glass bottle in the ground (with the top half or 2/3 above the ground) and put one of the children's plastic windmill toys in it. When the wind catches the windmill the sails going round creates vibration that passes through the tin into the ground. Cheap & cheerful and effective - also easy to move around.
Good luck!

I too have heard about vibration and noise.
Think the person I know used to mow the lawn around the holes a lot and scared them away that way.

You can get a mole catcher to trap then and move them, vibrations do work, then they will go and dig the neighbours garden up.
We had a strange mole in our flower beds, burrowed everywhere but never had any molehills, puzzling.

Germanshepherdsmum

Do you have a garden wwm? Has it ever been excavated by moles? I encourage and feed deer, hedgehogs, foxes and birds, all of which make a mess. No badgers nearby, thankfully. Moles are too destructive. And yes, it is my land so I decide what is welcome. In a very rural area such as this, moles have plenty of other opportunities.

Yes I do have a garden that is entirely organic and all wild life is welcome including moles, removing the “hills” is a simple enough occupation, using the earth to back fill any collapsed tunnels. You will find that it’s activity (and it is almost certainly only one mole) will lesson as summer approaches.

Although I own the deeds of the property, I do not “own” the land - I actually share it with the natural world from the tiniest microbes to the foxes and occasional badger.

I feel privileged to do so.

We have diversity on our land, need no moles turning everything topsy. At any time to the seasons we see all sort of animals about.

We feed our morning coffee grounds to their burrows, ask them to move along. In burrow openings by way of a tin open at both ends.

We had six moles, it was apparently the breeding season. Keeping up with their activities was anything but a simple occupation. As I said, it resembled the Somme.

I do own my land and am happy to share it with some wildlife, but certainly not moles. As I live in a very rural area, there are plenty of fields and meadows for them to enjoy themselves in.

Happy to support wild life as long as it isn’t inconvenient eh?

You can get mole deterrents - basically a spike that goes into the ground and vibrates either by solar or battery power. It will scare them away without hurting them.

The soil from molehills is full of nutrients and very good for the garden and the moles aerate the soil so unless you have lots of molehills you might simply wish to leave them alone.

If they don't like noise they'll hate Radio 1!
Or some wind chimes hung near their tunnels?

I remember when a local supermarket used to play classical music overnight to deter teenagers from loitering in the precinct.

I’d hardly call lots of molehills ‘inconvenient’, wwm. And I mean lots, not just one or two. Flies in the house are a similar ‘inconvience’ with whom I don’t choose to share my place.

If it's any consolation, the soil that moles throw up in their hills is a great growing medium. Scatter it on your herbaceous borders.

Apart from that I'm afraid I'm firmly in the camp that would rather have moles than manicured lawns.