Rather than calling the ‘mole man’ to get rid of them, try a natural approach such as a sprinkling of pepper or making loud noisesWhen I marked out where my vegetable beds would go, following a sketch I’d scribbled out the night before, I knew we’d need a fence to stop the deer and badgers from barging in to graze on the crops. It’s not a big plot, so it was straightforward enough to surround it with chicken wire held in place by stakes hammered into the ground, the edges pinned down to keep rabbits from burrowing underneath.It’s done its job well over the past few seasons, as the deer pass us by and I’ve only seen one rabbit in the garden. Yet late last spring, a mammal I wasn’t prepared for arrived in the patch. Suddenly mounds of finely tilled earth started appearing – in the chicken coop and on the grass (which I am too untidy a gardener to care much about) but then in the veg patch too. A ravenous local mole had moved in. Continue reading…
Source : theguardian.com
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