It's easy to look at the downsides of having moles. Believe it or not, moles can provide benefits to your garden or yard: their digging aerates your yard, which keeps the nutrients circulating and their consumption of certain nefarious bugs that could otherwise be detrimental to your plants' roots keeps your garden plush. If you still don't wish to play host to these moles, below are some effective and natural ways to chase them away for good.
1. Repellants. They react strongly to the odor of castor oil, so you may be able to restrict their activity with the use of a castor oil spray.
Combine two tablespoons of dish soap with one cup of castor oil and one gallon of water in a sprayer. Apply this solution into any tunnels in your yard once a month.
2. Barriers. Another option is to bury a 24-inch hardware cloth or metal barrier at least one foot below the surface of your yard, bending the bottom of the barrier out at a 90-degree angle.
To find out where to place the barrier, flatten pushed up soil with the flat side of a shovel and then check the area the next day. If it is loose and/or mounded again, you have found an active tunnel.
3. Drainage. Since moles like moist soil, you can make sure your lawn and garden has proper drainage after a rainfall or watering.
4. Plants. Natural mole repellents include marigolds, chocolate lilies, daffodils, alliums, mole plants, fritillaries and castor beans. Garlic is another good choice.
Option 6 is the one I use mostly but these are all amazing!
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I own a nuisance wildlife company and i use dry ice for gophers and moles with great success
Urine also works
Jane Andrew Inman
Land minds and grenades that’s how you do it
Just bury them alive 😉
Pee on them lol
Terry Gwin
Bill Northcutt
Harley Duncan Bonnel
Dennis Munz
Just put gallon glass jars on holes they’ll stop no idk why just a friends dad had them and he did this and no more problems on only 5 holes
My mom used to tell me this story of how my grandma got rid of moles in her garden, it involved a garden hose and a butcher knife.
Jesse Askin
Just hire a red neck pay him and he see food and beer money
best way get a rat terrer dog! chemical free!
Do it like they did in “Caddy shack.”
Russ Arnold
Sammie Johnson your dad needs to read this lol , he stopped at nothing to catch moles
My cat love to get them and kill them. Then she bring them to me dead or live.
I need something for gophers? Besides a snake or human hair!
Earl Durham
Marsha Lee Chrisman
Thanks Lorri Taylor
Make sure its moles not gophers. The Mazama Pocket Gopher is now listed as a threatened species. … The Mazama Pocket Gopher, one of two gopher species in Washington state, … land in Thurston County will be designated as critical habitat for the pocket gopher. … to mitigate land-use restrictions while also protecting the fragile gopher.
Tia Morris
Tracy Guzman
Joseph
Sarah Stefura
Frank Johnson
NUKE the little pests