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Old 12-01-2009, 07:55 PM posted to uk.rec.gardening
Rusty_Hinge[_2_] Rusty_Hinge[_2_] is offline
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from "Bob Hobden" contains these words:

We had them turn up right at the end of our tenure of our old allotment and
the little furry things dug right along a row of plants and undermined
them.
The plants suffered badly.
We now have them on our "new" allotment, presumably because there are now
worms there, we having manured the ground well, and we now have a couple of
children's windmills stuck in the ground to try to discourage them. It's an
on old trick which has appeared to stop them coming onto the plot where the
windmills are. Will have to purchase some more to keep the whole plot mole
free and they need turning into the wind as it changes so they keep
spinning
and vibrating.
I can only imagine what some of our "new" allotment gardeners think. :-)


I've never found them to work - nor bottles buried with just a couple of
inches of open neck above ground.

A field full of (frisky) horses is best - but the vegetables tend to
suffer a bit.

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Rusty
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