A few plants are are already affected; moles are eating the roots.
I already put three solar powered mole repellent stick that vibrate and make a beeb but to no effect.
I don’t have cats.
What can I do to make them go away??
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Minced garlic works, but it doesn’t last very long.
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Is there any way to make a spray that works? How do you utilise it?
If for moles I would stir some into the soil.
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@MidwestGuy Ok, thank you for this, I’ll start mincing garlic now!
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It works great for critters like chipmunks too.
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Soo… if I would make a spray, would I boil some garlic and use the water?
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Never heard of it, but may be worth a try.
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Here is some reading material for your problem. Sorry about the damage.
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Thanks everyone for the input, I’m off to make some garlic water
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@Hopalong I have dealt with maaaaaaany moles in my time.
Every summer i go to war with these bastards. They’re my sworn enemy.
Believe me when i tell you that no amount of mixed this or that, no powder or poison, no solar powered buzzers, no nothing is going to work - the bastards will skirt away make another tunnel and continue to make your life miserable.
You need one of these traps and you need a couple of them.
Im sure you can see the tunnels they’ve dug. You gotta stomp them down, collapse them and put a few of these traps up. If it hasn’t set off in 2 days pull them up and place them in another area of the tunnel.
Its unfortunate that you have to kill them, but thats just how it is.
A few things (probably no-brainers) that ive learned: Theyre most active in the early morning hours and right before sunset. A hard rain will wash up most their tunnels so theyre actively working right after the weather passes. They’re looking for grubs and larvae and shit - nematodes are a costly and tedious but effective way to take away alot of their food supply.
Also, you can use chicken wire buried under and around your most special crops to protect their roots, but this does nothing for you at the moment.
Don’t waste your time or money, none of it works. Just trust me on this one.
(Wear gloves when handling these to keep your scent off of them.)
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Oh i should add… when it sets off and you pull up this dead ass, stupid ass, ugly ass critter you’re going to really disturb the soil so do notttttt put it too too close to your plants, you’ll really hurt the roots.
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So your saying you dont like moles… @Bonjoyle im thinking just like bill would do, some dynamite!! 1/4 stick otta do.
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No Bueno
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I dont mind critters at all.
That was Momma before she passed. She was my friend for many years and brought her babies to me within a month before she died.
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Thats pretty special. We had a pet deer when i was growing up. Got lost from its mom in a forest fire. We raised it like another one of our dogs. Then fish and game came and took it. Bummer
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Wildlife is strange at times. She just walked up to me one day and that was that. She went so far as to pay attention to where the box of snacks was kept and my wife found her in the kitchen going through the cupboard looking for her snacks.
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IMO and experience one needs to kill off their food,grubs:worms.When there is no food they leave.I generally apply grub killer about 6-8 ft from my plants and circle them.Seems to help.
I don’t know who remembers those two metal stake worm shockers where you wet the ground and plug them in.Worms would come to the surface so we had bait to go fishing.Worms would always die.But it would be interesting to see if it works .I have moles at times but I think they are more than likely just passing thru.
I had times running the Rototiller where I would unearth them.Them things can dig a hole in rocket speed but not fast enough,my woofers would finish them off.
Well that’s me .02 cents.
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