How do I prevent moles from eating my plant's roots?
Question:My garden has been growing real well until a mole "moved in" how do I stop him from eating my plant's roots(and killing the plants)?
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Ok, this sounds kinds gross, but it really does work, we found this in one of those diy books and figured what the heck lets try it... Used Kitty Litter!! We use the clumping kind so we just dropped a few clumps into a tunnel, then watered the garden.Within seconds that ugly little sucker came to the surface. We quickly scooped him up and relocated him to the field behind the house. Give it a try.. the worst that could happen is your catbox gets cleaned...LOL..Good Luck!!
Sprinkle the area around the garden with mothballs. It repells moles, racoons and other rodents.
If it's eating your plants' roots, it's not a mole...it's a vole...and I know what you mean because I have been battling them for the past 3 years. There are vole pellets you can get and put around the roots of the plants. Some have Warfarin and cause the rodents to bleed to death internally. Others have Zinc (of some type that does something similar). There are also garlic bombs you can place in their holes. There are sound/vibration tubes you can put into the ground that will drive them crazy (and you but they work).
The best thing I've found is the black female cat I adopted in December. She's gotten at least 9 of those biddies in the past 3 months. That's 3 times as many as I was able to kill in the past 3 years. I'd say her average is a lot better than mine and all the gadgets, baits, traps and poisons I've tried.
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