How do they do it????

[Nicos]

The snow is nearly melted and the ground is still frozen solid.....

BUT.......

there are fresh molehills in my garden!!!!

[Flummery]

I'd guess it's only frozen just far enough down for us not to be able to plant things or pull up our leeks! If they're going at it from below they've got a head start, so to speak!

[annacruachan]

Fresh molehills usually indicate that more cold weather is on the way!

[Nicos]

Fresh molehills usually indicate that more cold weather is on the way!

cheers!!!

[Jeanied]

Didn't the snow insulate the ground from freezing? There was a you tube clip of a groundhog popping up out of the snow in different places posted by someone on one of these threads - not good enough at the search function to find it!

[Nicos]

Nah- we had -10C just before the snow- and a couple of nights ago, so everything is still rock solid.
We even had a molehill in the snow which was a good 8" deep!!!

[chris]

You wanna take a length of 2.5 twin & earth, run it down into the mole hill, take a spur and into the others, then wire it into a socket.

sorted

[chris]

(p.s your house may burn down, but at lest the moles will be gone!)

[Jeanied]

My mother used to shove the hosepipe down the molehills and fill them up with water - sometimes it took hours - but that won't work in freezing weather.

[Nicos]

(p.s your house may burn down, but at lest the moles will be gone!)

Ha!

I have visions of them all lined up warming themselves by the housefire!!!