{"id":139109,"date":"2023-09-08T17:00:36","date_gmt":"2023-09-08T10:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/im-proud-of-my-wildlife-friendly-patch-but-i-really-dont-dig-this-mole\/"},"modified":"2023-09-08T17:19:13","modified_gmt":"2023-09-08T10:19:13","slug":"im-proud-of-my-wildlife-friendly-patch-but-i-really-dont-dig-this-mole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/im-proud-of-my-wildlife-friendly-patch-but-i-really-dont-dig-this-mole\/","title":{"rendered":"I\u2019m proud of my wildlife-friendly patch, but I really don\u2019t dig this mole"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nRather than calling the \u2018mole man\u2019 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\u2019d scribbled out the night before, I knew we\u2019d need a fence to stop the deer and badgers from barging in to graze on the crops. It\u2019s 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\u2019s done its job well over the past few seasons, as the deer pass us by and I\u2019ve only seen one rabbit in the garden. Yet late last spring, a mammal I wasn\u2019t prepared for arrived in the patch. Suddenly mounds of finely tilled earth started appearing \u2013 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…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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Rather than calling the \u2018mole man\u2019 to get rid of them, try a natural approach...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-property-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p75ss1-AbH","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":139154,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/plagued-by-moles-try-a-pickled-onion-brief-letters\/","url_meta":{"origin":139109,"position":0},"title":"Plagued by moles? 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