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ALMOST BEEKEEPING - RELATED TOPICS => GARDENING AROUND THE HOUSE => Topic started by: EaglePestEliminators on May 25, 2017, 10:58:00 am

Title: Moles in Seattle
Post by: EaglePestEliminators on May 25, 2017, 10:58:00 am
Every one knows about moles very small, inconspicuous ears but harms your garden feeding on the grubs, earthworms and other soil critters beneath your tomatoes. Do you agree? Share your problems here and lets try to get solution for it.

Happy Gardening.
Title: Re: Moles in Seattle
Post by: Acebird on May 25, 2017, 02:04:00 pm
Wiled cats.  Feed them enough to keep them around.
Title: Re: Moles in Seattle
Post by: jalentour on May 25, 2017, 10:13:33 pm
He probably means feral cats.

Title: Re: Moles in Seattle
Post by: GeezLouise on May 26, 2017, 04:17:23 pm
Spray for tansey. That will kill the worms and moles move on to unsprayed territory. AFAIK, moles' primary diet is worms, grubs, and bugs. Voles on the other hand, you need cats.

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Title: Re: Moles in Seattle
Post by: minz on May 28, 2017, 01:12:38 am
I can kill them pretty good with a cinch trap but they are now made local and they break within a year. They are crazy expensive to last so short a time so I stopped buying them. Now  I?m forced to try a different trap type.
Trick to killing the buggers is to dig down from the hole until you hit the horizontal tunnel and set the traps there.
Title: Re: Moles in Seattle
Post by: Ben Framed on April 03, 2023, 10:45:36 am
Spray for tansey. That will kill the worms and moles move on to unsprayed territory. AFAIK, moles' primary diet is worms, grubs, and bugs. Voles on the other hand, you need cats.

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Voles are terrible on Hosta! I actually seen a Hosta leaf disappear into the ground, (via vole hole), sort of like a carrot plant on the Buggs Bunny Show, when Buggs was snitching them from beneath lol....  What beside cats will work in a Vole situation?

Phillip

 
Title: Re: Moles in Seattle
Post by: Michael Bush on April 03, 2023, 12:06:50 pm
I've never thought of moles as a problem.  Voles can move into a hive in the winter, as do mice.  Those are a problem.