What is the best method to get rid of moles in your garden?

Question

Any ideas on how to get them to MOVE without harming the little diggers?

Answer 1

Place empty bottles, wine bottles or the like around the edge of the lawn, this truly does work as the wind whistling in the bottle frightens them away. You may have to leave them there for a few weeks. We did it in our garden and it worked. It's an old country trick.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

The very best way is to bury ferret poop in their holes, the stench drives them away really quickly.

SOURCE: I used to get rid of moles professionally, and traps, speakers and all the other methods never worked so well or quickly.

Answer 4

Cats. :-)
Allergic?? Don't like them?? Ahhhhh......and you did say without harming them....didn't you??
(Mine don't harm them really....they just think of them as toys!! But.....that may be that they are so old they don't have teeth.....the cats..not the moles.....)

O.K....O.K.....

First, get rid of the grubs in the grass. Moles are chasing voles who eat grubs. Moles will occasionally venture into a garden for other reasons, but only if they can't find their preferred prey.

Milkey spore is a pain, but is organic, so......even if you don't have the ability or inclination to be around nature's own four clawed ultimate mole trap (for whatever reason)....milky spore won't hurt other beasties or bare feet....or leave hair on your pillow........ :-)
Just have to remember to re-do it after the rain; and make sure that you hang those nasty, tacky, yellow plastic things that trap all of the japanese beetles....nothing like the circle of life...is there!!
(and don't get me started on how to address the Crepe Myrtles in the neighbors yards attracting EVERY SINGLE JAPANESE BEETLE IN THE COUNTY!!.....you can only control what you plant in YOUR space....vent, vent, vent.....back to voles and moles)

Second, when you find a mole hole, fill it with camphor, eucalyptus, or hot, ground pepper or...... like someone else suggested: if you have them available, the peppers themselves-they last longer and don't wash away in the rain. Then stomp it down and crush the opening. Sure...the mole will probably just pop up somewhere else until they sneeze themselves out of the neighborhood, but oh....the satisfaction of stomping the hole that you just tripped on!! (or mowed over...thank you very much for the bald spot mr Mole!!)

The beeper thingy doesn't work. I agree. But there is a very nice looking, decorative windmill that has a "pounding iron" that I've found works very nicely. But only in smaller areas....and after all...how many little, tin windmills does one REALLY need??

They don't like going through garlic, or...ifor that matter...other types of bulbs....especially if you are doing the deterrent of planting the bulbs in a bed of burried gravel (for drainage and squirrel confusion)....but, this is my ultimate, fool proof, never failed method if you are talking about a confined, smaller area: make a straight cut down about 8-10 inches, and cut a swath of wire mesh (about a foot wide), insert "hardware cloth" into cut earth and re-cover (most of the way up). Make sure you leave some sticking up but: Make sure you put some ribbons on the top, or some kind of marker, because it will chew up your rotating tines if you run across it with a tiller. Not to mention what it will do to your bare feet or shins if you run into it!! They don't go that deep, they can't get through it, and it keeps out the voles, moles, gophers, and anything else that likes to travel under the surface! (even snakes!!)

I still say an old, toothless, cat is worth a gallon of cayanne or bushel of peter peppers any time, but......... :-) That may just be the need for diverting my attention from the blasted Crepe Myrtles!

Good luck and happy gardening!

Answer 5

Bury chillies around the garden. They won't eat them but they sure won't be in your garden anymore.

Answer 6

Wait till they pop up then whack them over the head with a baseball bat. That usually works.

Answer 7

I'm not sure what works best but I do know what won't work. A customer of mine tried using a small beeping gadget which was supposed to "scare" them away. It didn't work.

Answer 8

bury cloves of garlic all around the garden! and its a great fertilizer too.

Answer 9

You should start by getting rid of the grub worms that are in your soil.

Thank you!

Answer 10

Traps i guess..