Gardening & Landscaping
Dear Community,
Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
If you have questions about this, please email help@theknot.com.
Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
If you have questions about this, please email help@theknot.com.
Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
Moles!
Hope this isn't a too-common question, I paged back a few and didn't see it. We have tons of mole holes that just popped up in our front yard. Any suggestions for getting rid of the moles? I know they eat grubs, etc., but it's making it very hazardous to walk out there, I twisted my ankle pretty badly a few days ago. I got "Holy Moley" (a castor-oil based mole repellant) and I'm going to try it. I've been searching online and quite a few relatively qualified people suggest Wrigley's Juicy Fruit gum down the holes (apparently they eat it and it causes intestinal blockage and they die) but that sounds like a slow, painful death and I'd rather just chase them off. There's a lot of unpopulated land by me, help me send them there!
Warning
No formatter is installed for the format bbhtml
Re: Moles!
Wow, I'm with ya on the wrigley's blockage solution...that just sounds slow and painful and cruel!
I had a mole problem last winter. First at my neighbor's, then came through on my side... I started just kicking over the little mole piles and tamping down the dirt, and the moles just kept progressing over to my other neighbor's. I'd say it took less than a month. I'm not sure though if that annoyed them enough to leave, or if it was the fact I have 500+ lbs of dog running around back there and being scary and leaving their scent.
I have heard you can buy some animal urine to scare off moles too. Good luck!
According to a family friend who is an exterminator if you just want them to move away buy some inexpensive pinwheels and place them in recently dug holes. The vibration the pinwheel makes when it turns in the wind will scare them away to a different location. Hopefully, that's the vacant lot and not your neighbors yard!
The mole's preferred food is earthworms, not grubs.
There are a few earthworm-flavored poisons on the market (one is even shaped like a worm) that claim 98% effectiveness, but they are pricey.
We tried the gum thing... had no luck.
But we then put used kitty litter on top of their holes- this took a little while to work but they eventually moved on. I had read that cats are a natural predator & the moles are scared off by the smell.
Hi Dr. G!
When we first moved into this rental we had bad mole problem. Our, then, 3 cats would refuse to use the litter boxes and would use the back yard (like dogs and only go out for pee breaks now). The moles were gone w/in a month. Now we have 4 cats and still no moles...our neighboors are a different story...
"Our greatest glory isn't in never falling but in rising every time we fall"
8/24/09 3rd cycle on 50mg Clomid= BFP 9/23/09 =10/8/09 m/c #2 at 6wks 2days 3/9/10 4th Cycle on 50mg Clomid = BFP 4-5-10 200mg prometrium 2xdaily 1st beta/progesterone 10dpo=43 2nd beta 13dpo=339 u/s 4/16=5wks 3days single visible sac and fetal pole h/b 4/28=Suprise it's Twins! 150 and 127 bpm Labor Buddy to Sonadora and Strunella