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    Anyone got any idea how to get rid of moles reasonably cheaply? I've got one in my greenhouse luckily my plants are in pots but he's undermining big clumps of soil every day... Not sure what to do, I've been told bleach down the holes, leave it he may leave after one season, but he's making a mess and has even dug out some sand from my newly laid patio too
    If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need. Marcus Tullius Cicero


    my memories of my garden http://lisamcflisagarden.blogspot.co.uk/

  • #2
    There are lots of threads about the dreaded MOLES. Also lots of methods of getting rid of them. I find that the mole fuses work to a certain extent but the best thing is to make the environment unpleasant for moles that is rags soaked in some thing really smelly stuffed in the runs or best of all Ferret poo.

    Only time will tell. For some unknown reason mine have (whispers)all gone away.

    Best of luck
    Last edited by roitelet; 05-09-2012, 07:33 AM.
    Gardening requires a lot of water - most of it in the form of perspiration. Lou Erickson, critic and poet

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    • #3
      I had moles some years ago and different part of the counrty. Got one of those sonic mole deterrent gizmos. Seamed to work as the moles disappeared. Either that or one the cats got them.
      Sometimes you just have to scratch that itch and get dirt under your finger nails.

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      • #4
        We have the occaisional mole and use a mole smoke bomb thing which seems effective for about 6 months then another one appears!

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        • #5
          I stuck coloured windmills into the soil and the moles seemed to disappear from those beds because they don't like the vibration - don't know how much wind you'd get inside a greenhouse mind, but at least the windmills are pretty to look at . (Well they were until the tops blew off and away in the wind heh ).
          sigpicGardening in France rocks!

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          • #6
            Thank you all for your replies, I'll try the windmills first or the nasty smelling stuff as they seem cheapest options, I'll try sticking the windmills round the outside base of the greenhouse first kathy see if that works the bombs and sonar gizmos may be an option if that doesn't work tho, first year we've had moles and I never knew how destructive they were
            If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need. Marcus Tullius Cicero


            my memories of my garden http://lisamcflisagarden.blogspot.co.uk/

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            • #7
              If the windmills don't work try the smelly stuff, it work for me in the polytunnel (some very odd soapy thing I was given for Christmas). Failing that follow this link, so that if you use traps they work really effectively.
              "A life lived in fear is a life half lived."

              PS. I just don't have enough time to say hello to everyone as they join so please take this as a delighted to see you here!

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              • #8
                Ah! Ferret poo! What a good idea! My daughter has ferrets... wonder if I'd be allowed to bring some back on Ryanair . I now have moles in my tunnel too... so maybe I need to try the windmills again myself if I can find enough bits to piece some more together. Alternatively, having finally got my hubby to go all French and pee on the compost heap, maybe he can 'redirect' it into the mole holes??
                sigpicGardening in France rocks!

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