Moles! How to rid oneself of them?

 

Our allotment is getting like Grand Central for the local mole population,
plants constantly undermined and walkways giving way without warning.
How do we get rid of them?

--
Regards
Bob Hobden
W.of London. UK

 



   Employ a mole catcher  to set  traps.

   Janet

 

On Mon, 28 Jun 2010 17:08:34 +0100, Janet Baraclough wrote:


But beware!

Near Manchester city at the sign of the plough
There lived a molecatcher, I can tell you how.

Chorus (after each verse):
    Singing lor te lie day, well well,
    Lor te lie little lie,
    Lor te lie day

He goes a-molecatching from morning till night
And a young fellow came for to play with his wife.

Now the molecatcher jealous of this very same thing,
He hid in the wash house to watch him come in.

Now when this young fellow come over the stile
That caused the molecatcher so foxy to smile.

He knocked at the door and this he did say,
“Oh where is your husband, good woman, I pray?�

“He's gone a-moletrapping, you need have no fear,�
But little she thought the molecatcher was near.

She went off upstairs and he followed her sign
And the ole molecatcher crept close up behind.

Now when that young fellow's in the midst of his frolics
The molecatcher trapped him quite fast by the jackets.

The trap it bit tight and he laughed at the sight,
Saying, “Here's the best mole that I've caught in me life.�

“I'll make you pay well for ploghing my land
And the money it will cost you no less than ten pound.�

“Very well,� says the young fellow, “The money I don't mind,
That only works out about tuppence a time.�

So come all young fellows and mind what you're at,
Don't you ever get caught in the molecatcher's trap.

 

On 29/06/10 14:57, Derek Turner wrote:

There's a potential making mountains out of mole hills joke lurking in
there somewhere

 

wrote:


Unless your allotment is massive, the chances are you only have one or
maybe two moles - they're solitary creatures. Mole smokes and
vibrators don't work in my experience. Really you need to trap the
little blighter. You can get either "catch" traps - little cages - or
"kill" traps - spring loaded caliper type things - depending on how
animal friendly you are. Then it's a case of digging down into one of
the runs (the mole will run around its territory regularly) and place
the trap. Then you either dispose of the body or release the animal
somewhere else.

Note re vibrators - these are anti-mole vibrators and as far as I
know, Ann Summers doesn't sell them!

And for the avoidance of doubt, burying them alive is not a reliable
solution!

My garden was designed by moles but that's another story!

John