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20-05-2020, 09:20 AM
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The Mole

Is back disrupting my flowerbed

I wish he would go next door but no such luck it like he knows he will be zapped if he does !
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20-05-2020, 10:12 AM
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Muddy, I get Moles occasionally. They are such a nuisance in the garden, especially the lawn.
I haven’t had them for a couple of years but what’s the betting now l’ve mentioned them, they’ll be back!
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20-05-2020, 10:35 AM
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Maybe a bit of organic fertiliser put into the flowerbeds would put the mole(s) off.

Before I put turfs down at one house we were at, I raked treated human waste fertiliser into the earth. Both of my neighbours had moles in their lawns but they didn't dig ours. The grass grew like mad though.

How about some of this?

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Growing-Suc.../dp/B001CN1LHU
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20-05-2020, 11:27 AM
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Re: The Mole

We used to get a mole, but when they built over the fields behind us the mole(s) stopped coming in. Think I'd rather still have the moles & the rabbits.
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20-05-2020, 11:54 AM
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Re: The Mole

Originally Posted by mart ->
Maybe a bit of organic fertiliser put into the flowerbeds would put the mole(s) off.

Before I put turfs down at one house we were at, I raked treated human waste fertiliser into the earth. Both of my neighbours had moles in their lawns but they didn't dig ours. The grass grew like mad though.

How about some of this?

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Growing-Suc.../dp/B001CN1LHU
This brings up a horrible scenario Mart nope I am not going that far

The box looks a better alternative !
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20-05-2020, 02:08 PM
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Originally Posted by Muddy ->
This brings up a horrible scenario Mart nope I am not going that far

The box looks a better alternative !
You're probably right. I was given some of the fertiliser as a sort of strange tip for mending a TV in the staff room of a sewage farm. I'd mentioned getting the soil in the garden ready for laying turf.

I took the gift uncertainly because I thought the same as you. It was OK though. It didn't smell or look like ..well, you know.

Maybe the moles knew what it was.
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20-05-2020, 03:59 PM
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Re: The Mole

I have just seen the little so and so , well not precisely seen him but seen the earth moving as he tunnels along
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20-05-2020, 09:27 PM
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Re: The Mole

It's essential you get them checked out by your GP if they get any bigger or start to itch!
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21-05-2020, 03:52 PM
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Muddy, try sticking one of those little toy windmills into your lawn where Moley has been tunnelling. The vibrations should send him/her scuttling for the neighbours 'cos they don't like vibrations.
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22-05-2020, 08:14 AM
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Amazon sells mole traps. I'm thinking of buying 1 or 2 of them.
 
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