How to get rid of / repel garden moles?

[rh1]

What about garlic? It worked for me at my previous house and I lived next to a field. In my current garden, I have wild garlic growing.

 

[skeptic_SA]

SO's father stays on a plot. He has a small generator that needs new rings (thing smokes like hell). He attaches a flexible rubber hose to the exhaust and inserts it into the hole and lets it smoke them out. Claims it drives them away for months on end.

 

[RedViking]

Just as an aside, I used to have a more "humane" one before, it was a basically a tube with a one way trap door on either end, the mole would run in and be trapped.
I stopped using it after the second one bit me (they are horridly aggressive), but I used to release the moles outside the house of a person that owed me money, sweet revenge.

Well that was my other option. To have some sort of thing I can trap them in and then release somewhere.

 

[Not_original]

Call the kgb and tell them one their moles went rogue, they will send a hitsquad to sort it out

 

[Aghori]

I used the old castor oil spray trick a few decades ago when I had a mole problem.

 

[RonSwanson]

Check out the dogs, so cool as they almost knowingly wait for the KABOOM!

 

[Craig_]

What is the most lethal way, practically speaking, to get rid of the moles. Anyone know what poison or ingredients to use and can spray into the tunnels?

A link to the product will be appreciated

Post number 84 you ungrateful git. Please ensure that you get video footage.

 

[RedViking]

Post number 84 you ungrateful git. Please ensure that you get video footage.

My Landlord said no.

 

[Dairyfarmer]

Aluminium Phosphide tablets. Most co-ops stock them. You do have to sign the poison register though.

 

[Aghori]

My Landlord said no.

Aerosal sodium cyanide. Wear an approved gas mask though, and protective clothing. Do it at night when nobody is around. Insert into their holes and spray, just like what you do to those prostitutes.

 

[Craig_]

My Landlord said no.

Just apologize profusely afterwards.

 

[Not_original]

Aerosal sodium cyanide. Wear an approved gas mask though, and protective clothing. Do it at night when nobody is around. Insert into their holes and spray, just like what you do to those prostitutes.

Gas mask, eish your girls are really dirty....

 

[Not_original]

Just apologize profusely afterwards.

One thing life has tough me, forgiveness is easier to get than permission. Make like Nike, just do it

 

[Nemesys]

Open its hole. stuff a raw fish in...Cover up and laugh sadistically. That smell is enough to drive anything away permanently.

My father did this and the moles never returned. I seriously don't know if it works. Maybe find out is moles are herbivores and have an acute sense of smell.

On the farm where I grew up my farther used to stuff a dead chicken like the raw fish Magnum suggest in the hle and that worked like a charm. So I believe raw fish will also work. They do have an acute sense of smell and anything rotten will drive them away.

 

[Alltorc]

Don't waste yout money on those solar powered or battery operated mole replenants.The mile in my garden pushed these items out of the ground.

 

[RedViking]

Oh, I forgot to report back. I finally got rid of the moles and found something that works. Don't waste money on mole repellants or those overpriced devices.

 

[RedViking]

I should probably post the solution......

 

[RedViking]

1. Buy this, usually available at most stores:

Moth-Ex Naphthalene Marbles 200g

www.checkers.co.za

2. Flatten all the tunnels and mole heaps so you don't waste time on old tunnels.


3. Now every time you see a heap, open it up and find the tunnel. Push a moth ball in there. Lightly close it up (don't collapse the tunnel).


4. Repeat the process every time there is a new heap or tunnel.

5. Within a week 80% of the tunnels and heaps were 'gone' or should I say not opened up again.

6. Here and there a new heap would pop up, chuck in a moth ball.

7. The past month I had maybe (it could have been an old one I missed) one or two new tunnels. In goes the moth balls.


The moles HATE the smell of these stinking things (and they do stink!).

My dog gave it one sniff and avoided that part of the garden for the rest of the day.


SOLVED.

THREAD CLOSED.


No seriously, it works!


If you have huge garden... eish.

 

[Aghori]

1. Buy this, usually available at most stores:
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Moth-Ex Naphthalene Marbles 200g

www.checkers.co.za

2. Flatten all the tunnels and mole heaps so you don't waste time on old tunnels.


3. Now every time you see a heap, open it up and find the tunnel. Push a moth ball in there. Lightly close it up (don't collapse the tunnel).


4. Repeat the process every time there is a new heap or tunnel.

5. Within a week 80% of the tunnels and heaps were 'gone' or should I say not opened up again.

6. Here and there a new heap would pop up, chuck in a moth ball.

7. The past month I had maybe (it could have been an old one I missed) one or two new tunnels. In goes the moth balls.


The moles HATE the smell of these stinking things (and they do stink!).

My dog gave it one sniff and avoided that part of the garden for the rest of the day.


SOLVED.

THREAD CLOSED.


No seriously, it works!


If you have huge garden... eish.

This is a better method:

 

[RedViking]

This is a better method:

Already posted above. =)