How Do You Get Rid Of Garden Moles?
If you have paid a lot of money to have the lawn in your garden laid, you will want to protect it from pests. It may take just a few months for the moles who to take up residence under it to destroy it. • To get rid of your mole/s can be a problem if you don’t want to kill them. It often becomes a choice between your lawn or vegetable garden and the mole’s need to tunnel and feed on worms. Trapping seems to be the best way. Use scissor traps which you can buy off the internet. Just type in “mole traps” on YouTube for a wealth of good video advice on how to set and use your traps. Make sure that your traps are immersed in a mole hill for a few hours before you set them. Wear gloves to avoid rubbing your hands with soil from a mole hill before handling the traps. • Use a small spade to dig a hole between two mole hills. The tunnels don’t connect in a straight line usually but you will find a small tunnel if you dig enough. • Set the trap in the hole that you dug tight against the tunnel.
• To get rid of your mole/s can be a problem if you don’t want to kill them. It often becomes a choice between your lawn or vegetable garden and the mole’s need to tunnel and feed on worms. Trapping seems to be the best way. Use scissor traps which you can buy off the internet. Just type in “mole traps” on YouTube for a wealth of good video advice on how to set and use your traps. Make sure that your traps are immersed in a mole hill for a few hours before you set them. Wear gloves to avoid rubbing your hands with soil from a mole hill before handling the traps. • Use a small spade to dig a hole between two mole hills. The tunnels don’t connect in a straight line usually but you will find a small tunnel if you dig enough. • Set the trap in the hole that you dug tight against the tunnel. • Cover the top of the hole that you dug with an old roof tile and finished off with a covering of the soil from the hole.
