getting rid of moles in the yard
06-14-2011, 07:57 PM
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Originally Posted by needles3thread
How do you get rid of moles in your yard?
I can't seem them working - only the results where they
have been digging tunnels.
I can't seem them working - only the results where they
have been digging tunnels.
If you have rose bushes in your yard, insert the thorny stems into the run. My one time rose growing neighbor, now deceased, always was successful with that method.
I have one that burrows in the flower beds from time to time and has never come into the yard, so I leave it be since it aerates the soil and sure make weeding easy early in the sping. HA!
06-14-2011, 09:38 PM
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Originally Posted by needles3thread
Thanks for all the replies. Some, we have tried, others not. Been fighting them forever, it seems. We have no cats or dogs.
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06-15-2011, 02:31 AM
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A friend of our swore on juicy fruit gum. She didn't chew it though. She said you put the stick - still in the aluminum wrapper - in the hole. The moles will chew through the aluminum to get to the gum, and the aluminum will kill them. I haven't tried this myself, but she used it - and had a mole free yard. :D
06-15-2011, 05:35 AM
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Originally Posted by needles3thread
How do you get rid of moles in your yard?
I can't seem them working - only the results where they
have been digging tunnels.
I can't seem them working - only the results where they
have been digging tunnels.
06-16-2011, 08:36 AM
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If you live outside the city limits stand and watch for mound movement from their digging. Blast downwards with a shotgun and if you don't kill the darn thing the sound shock usually does. I have only had to resort to this method twice as the mole pellets usually work. You have to find the tunnel and insert the pellets as it won't work if you place them in the mound spot.
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