My moles have gone this year - from a lawn which is also surrounded by
fields and was once part of a field. I think that the hot weather in
July has caused shrinkage or some other molecular change in my lawn so
that all the old mole runs are now open to the elements. It has turned
the lawn into an ugly jigsaw of narrow gulleys approx 3in wide and deep
in which an ankle can easily be turned. I'm about to try filling them
with a dressing and reseeding. Trouble is I've got to take a guess on
the grass seed and might end up with a lovely jigsaw pattern on my turf
next year... And then the moles will come back.

Ditto. Yesterday I used four wheelbarrows full of earth to fill holes in the
lawns made by moles and other ground dwellers - made worse by our black lab
and Westie expanding the holes looking for their inhabitants. Unfortunately
we too have lots of collapsed surface tunnels making the lawns quite unsafe
to walk on without diligence - anyone attempting to play football would
likely get a broken ankle.
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David
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