Comments on: Lady Boothroyd wants to get rid of her garden mole problem https://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/lady-boothroyd-wants-to-get-rid-of-her-garden-mole-problem/ Gardenvisit.com Sat, 14 Jan 2012 03:04:16 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.8 By: Christine https://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/lady-boothroyd-wants-to-get-rid-of-her-garden-mole-problem/#comment-4598 Sat, 14 Jan 2012 03:04:16 +0000 http://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/?p=7907#comment-4598 Yes. It is a great skill indeed to be able to make a mountain out of a mole hill!

]]> By: Tom Turner https://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/lady-boothroyd-wants-to-get-rid-of-her-garden-mole-problem/#comment-4597 Fri, 13 Jan 2012 17:51:41 +0000 http://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/?p=7907#comment-4597 I agree: lets be nice to little gentlemen with neat waistcoats. The world has too few of them – and many of them have ambitions http://www.shawnolson.net/media/1/image/jpeg/page/465_1_Shawn_mole_cartoon.jpg

]]> By: Christine https://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/lady-boothroyd-wants-to-get-rid-of-her-garden-mole-problem/#comment-4596 Fri, 13 Jan 2012 03:21:26 +0000 http://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/?p=7907#comment-4596 Oh. What a shame you couldn’t incorporate the little gentlemen into your garden Lora! Perhaps if you had sent in photographs to Tom, some clever contributors could have done a quick design which incorporates the results of their ‘exploding’ in your yard.

Here is one such co-habiting arrangement. [ http://daanverhoeven.blogspot.com/2009/02/greener-on-this-side.html ]

Children seem to have a sympathetic outlook on the plight of the little creatures…[ http://childrenstorytales.com/millie-the-tar-heel-mole/ ]

]]> By: Lora https://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/lady-boothroyd-wants-to-get-rid-of-her-garden-mole-problem/#comment-4595 Mon, 09 Jan 2012 16:40:36 +0000 http://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/?p=7907#comment-4595 CASTOR OIL !!!!! IT works wonders, mix 2 tbsp castor oil, 2 tbsp dish soap, and a tbsp of cayenne pepper to 1 gallon of water and spray . Then soak entire area with water or do it before it rains If you have cats get them ready to play cause within 15 minutes the moles, voles or gophers will surface and high tail it out of there! Potion usually last for several months unless you have a lot of rain. First sign of tunnels spray again , this really has solved my mole problem, never had moles until about 4 months ago and then they just exploded my yard, but they are gone now!

]]> By: Tom Turner https://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/lady-boothroyd-wants-to-get-rid-of-her-garden-mole-problem/#comment-4594 Wed, 04 Jan 2012 07:19:17 +0000 http://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/?p=7907#comment-4594 In reply to Christine.

Birds – but they are lazy diggers.

]]> By: Christine https://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/lady-boothroyd-wants-to-get-rid-of-her-garden-mole-problem/#comment-4593 Wed, 04 Jan 2012 02:29:29 +0000 http://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/?p=7907#comment-4593 What creature normally eats the weed seeds?

]]> By: Jennifer Baker https://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/lady-boothroyd-wants-to-get-rid-of-her-garden-mole-problem/#comment-4592 Tue, 03 Jan 2012 16:09:02 +0000 http://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/?p=7907#comment-4592 Seems people hate what they don’t understand…by describing the lovely mole as “a little gentleman in the black velvet waist coat”, folks may soften their hearts a bit and leave these critters be.

]]> By: Tom Turner https://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/lady-boothroyd-wants-to-get-rid-of-her-garden-mole-problem/#comment-4591 Tue, 03 Jan 2012 07:19:42 +0000 http://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/?p=7907#comment-4591 In reply to Christine.

Great advice from Wiki on how to deal with the ‘mole problem’. The little gentlemen do a great job of fluffing-up loam for use in potting compost. I wish they would form a partnership with form of life which would remove weed seeds from mole hills. Moles might then become the gardeners best friends.

]]> By: Christine https://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/lady-boothroyd-wants-to-get-rid-of-her-garden-mole-problem/#comment-4590 Tue, 03 Jan 2012 02:43:52 +0000 http://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/?p=7907#comment-4590 The ‘little gentleman in the black velvet waist coat’ is rather cute despite his habit of digging holes in the lawn. If Lady Boothroyd objects to molehills in her lawn wiki has the following advice:

“…in many gardens, the damage caused by moles to lawns is mostly visual, and it is also possible to simply remove the earth of the molehills as they appear, leaving their permanent galleries for the moles to continue their existence underground.”

Given that they tolerate environments high in carbon dioxide moles must be invaluable little animals to have around during periods of climate change? [ http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/7899216/Secret-of-how-moles-breathe-underground-revealed.html ]

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