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"hob" wrote:
"moleyguy" wrote in message
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Hi all,
Where we live, there is an empty house next door with a huge mole
problem. The bark garden has so many molehills they have joined
together and it looks like someone has been digging trenches. I've used
every kind of mole repellant to repel their occasional forays over our
side of the fence, but today I have decided that enough is enough and
thought I'd check out a gardening message board for some expert
advice...
Does anyone on here know the most effective way to kill them when they
come over to my back garden under the fence? I want every last one of
them, and their children, dead. Not diverted to next door for a month
or so until they have another go. Dead. Never to return again. Deceased
- though preferably not pushing up the daisies...
Any advice would be welcome. On registering I did a quick search for
"moles" and saw one of these recommended on another thread
http://tinyurl.com/tftwn
Can anyone else vouch for their effectiveness? Would some kind of
warfarin based/rat poison type bait be more effective? At the moment,
I'm seriously considering sticking a few bangers down the holes and
hoping they die of shock!
Cheers,
Moleyguy.
I have used poison bait, gas grenades and two kinds of mole traps - I have
not tried the lawn spray that kills insects and worms to get rid of moles.
My father's old spring-loaded vertical trap worked best - a new one was kind
of weak - because it couldn't drive itself into the soil, I had to make
holes for the prongs and then retract and set it.
Gas grenades just annoyed them/it.
They/it stuck up their noses at the bait pellets - although once I got the
mole mid-summer; next year, part way into the year, there was a little
activity near the bait drop spot, and then nothing for the rest of the
year - leading me to believe the new tenant ate last year's bait pellets.
fwiw
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moleyguy
Juicy fruit gum and broken glass.
Weird
Bill
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