Posted on 03/18/2009 5:32:11 AM PDT by DouglasKC
We've lived in our current home for something like 14 years. I've never been a yard freak. I think I mowed my lawn once last year. I had to recently pull up several small trees from the front yard that sprouted.
But this year hope springs eternal. I want to really make my yard great. However there's one thing I'm worried about: moles.
I'm pretty sure there's an entire city of moles living under my grass. They've been there quite a while and they're fat, dumb and happy. I want to bring pain to their world.
What is THE best way to kill them? By best way I mean something a relatively lazy homeowner doesn't have to expend a lot of time and effort on. What works? What definitely doesn't work? What should I avoid?
Any and all suggestions and comments are welcomed and encouraged.
Thanks in advance.
Fire ants.
look in the white pages for Carl Spackler Rodent Exterminator. He’ll get rid of your problem PRONTO.
Others in the neighborhood thought it was neat, so Saturday mornings often were punctuated with muffled thumps and vibrations in the ground.
The practice seemed to stop years ago. I do not know whether people got bored with it, or ran out of moles.
I guess moles or voles have two levels to their tunnels. The top level is for cruising and the lower level is where they live, and other methods like smoke bombs could not get both levels. Air/Fuel explosives could. They probably killed by consuming all the oxygen.
Of course, it created carbon dioxide, so you'd have to live with yourself for causing Global Warming Climate Change.
We used sharp rakes and pitchforks.
What are you doing this weekend?
Wow great suggestion. I just did some research and there are companies that sell such windmills. Sounds like they're relatively cheap and really built for the lazy mole chaser.
Why get rid of it? Cindy Crawford made a career out of her mole.
Go to a garden center and purchase a lawn treatment consisting of the chem. Disiston. This chem. will kill the Worms and Grubs in your yard. If you get rid of these pest, I guarantee 100% you will be rid of the pest.These pest are the reason you have the Moles.
BTTT
If the only reason you don't like them is the Bugs-bunny-type mounded trails they create, try a multi-pronged approach. Get a cat (mine caught dozens), spray the soil with a castor oil/water solution, use a common device to shake up the soil and disrupt their lives (I think the brand name is Klipity-klop.)
Ferrets should do the job.
Ferrets should do the job.
Worms are pests?!
We had a dog that was part JR terrier. She was an absolute KILLER on moles. Now we have a little foo-foo dogand even though he hates moles, too, he just doesn’t have the strength to dig them up quickly and dispatch them.
Our neighbor is sort of eccentric. He will sit quietly in his yard waiting for movement and then shoot into the ground with a shotgun. Yes, we live in Redneckville, TN.
Moles eat grubs.
To get rid of the moles, kill the grubs.
I killed the grubs once and got rid of the moles, but now I just live with the moles because killing the grubs kills all the other little critters in your lawn, like toads, worm snakes, frogs, etc. As soon as you put the stuff down you can see all kinds of things crawling out of your lawn in their death throes.
I had a mole problem and nothing worked until I got some ant and grub killer (Brand name “Sevin”) and spread it liberally on my lawn. Kill thier food supply and moles will go elsewhere. At least they did in my case.
I was amazed at how effective the JRTs are. No big holes or anything. They find their target and take them out like snipers.
I do the tamping down, sitting and waiting thing, also. Then, I cut off their tunnel by shoving a spade behind them and flood their tunnel with water from a hose. When they come up through the ground for air, smack them upside the head with a shovel. I also keep a bucket of water handy (in case I just stunned them), put them in the bucket, and let them drown. It’s groce, but it works. I’ve found they work the ground early morning, about lunchtime, and early evening, not just at night.
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