[freda]

We have old fashioned harware store by us and am happy to get and post to you if you wish!

Another idea to rid of moles my mum treid with success - her new lawn had just been laid on her beautifully landscaped garden - Backing onto open fields of course the little blighter was going to spot something new and check it out!  :? Day 2 - mole hill appears with new turf still balanced on top! Mum peeled up the prize turf carefully and with an evil smile  :twisted: shoved the hose down the hole and switched it on.
She forgot  :oops: and left it running for the whole day but the mole never returned. Good job at that time she was not on a water meter!  :oops:
Good luck everyone who's ridding of moles - we're just focussing on the rats! May need another cat!

[richyrich7]

we're just focussing on the rats! May need another cat!

  http://www.chat.allotment-garden.org/viewtopic.php?t=2827&highlight=pet+friendly    

[pushrod]

  http://www.chat.allotment-garden.org/viewtopic.php?t=2827&highlight=pet+friendly    

4 pages and no mention of moles - do they eat sweet things? Would be quite nice to hear little underground explosions
I have heard of molecatchers injecting worms with strychnine or was it arsenic that they then put in the tunnels. Either way i don't suppose you can buy poisons at the local chemist without some sort of licence.
I remember as a small boy going along country roads and seeing dozens of moles hung up on barbed wire by the molecatcher. Haven't seen that sight in years.

[richyrich7]

  http://www.chat.allotment-garden.org/viewtopic.php?t=2827&highlight=pet+friendly    

4 pages and no mention of moles - do they eat sweet things? Would be quite nice to hear little underground explosions
I have heard of molecatchers injecting worms with strychnine or was it arsenic that they then put in the tunnels. Either way i don't suppose you can buy poisons at the local chemist without some sort of licence.
I remember as a small boy going along country roads and seeing dozens of moles hung up on barbed wire by the molecatcher. Haven't seen that sight in years.

I was thinking of Freda's Rat problem can't see the moles would eat it unless you can coat earthworms in it  

[EssexMoles]

If anyone needs any advice on setting traps for moles, I'd be happy to advise.
Set traps in the right place and you will catch within 24 hours if not sooner.

[Foxy]

We have mole hills springing up all over the place -but i sorta like them, will use the nicely prepared soil for seed beds and will just patch up the lawn. Really dont have the heart to trap them. I know foxes will dig for them. Watched a pair of foxes digging  one of our many mole hills- I know moles dont like fox urine so maybe my mole will disappear...next door!

[Sassy]

I too have had moles in the hen run this year.  A real pain as it has made the mud situation far worse. I went and did a mole course run by a chap that does it for a living.  Currently setting 4 traps a day and 75% of them are in the right place, witnessed by soil in the run that I had cleaned out. Sometimes the traps are set off but ..... no moles. I will keep trying as they make a real mess and will rid swathes of land of worms which is not good for the land.

[matthew2riches]

http://shop.ebay.co.uk/?_from=R40&_trksid=m38.l1313&_nkw=Mothballs&_sacat=See-All-Categories

[pushrod]

An update - i did get some moth balls from a big wilko and i did put a hose into their runs - for at least 30 mins and they still didn't fill up or overflow anywhere else 
The moth balls had some success but i used quite a few packets. They obviously didn't like them but tended to just throw up another mole hill a couple of feet away rather than clearing out altogether.
 Anyway the little B****** have recently started getting in my raised veg beds as well - so went back to the big wilkinsons to get more moth balls only to discover they don't sell them anymore because of them chemicals in them -
but then as i was leaving the store... a result - there on the sale shelf was a solar powered mole repeller for just £1. Got home and phoned my local wilko to see if they had any of the reduced mole repellers - No but the very nice lady did a search on her computer and found 2 more at Hucknall and even arranged for them to be transferred  .
So now war is resumed with 3 mole repellers... maybe this time!