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I've been lurking for a bit, but now I've got a question to ask please.

Morning, Kathy.

My friend and I took on an allotment in November. We have started clearing
it, but have been invaded by moles! Any ideas on non-harmful ways of
discouraging them? We've asked them nicely to go and burrow through the
bits we haven't dug yet but they wont play.

Sorry to be a wet blanket, but (as a onetime molecatcher) I know of no
way of discouraging them other than to trap them.

*UNLESS* you know someone who keeps ferrets.

Make a strong infusion of cleanings from the hutch, and liberally water
round the plot with it.

My uncle Bert used to ram a tube down into their burrow, drop some
carbide down it, then pour water in.
I don't know how effective it was...
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Gordon H
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