We have had a few problems with moles over the last few years and as the garden has developed, but during our Februrary visit one had invaded the orchard area and was leaving new mounds every night,. This was too much to bear!The campagin of war started then.
Last year, we installed one of those solar mole vibrators, that buzzes every minutes or so and whilst it is still operating, it does not seem to deter them. Having researched the internet we deduced that very few solutions seemed to work, other than perhaps the explosive traps and we were no at home long enough to make that effective.
However, keen to try something we went for a simple option and one that involved drinking a few bottles of beer, and then burying the bottles in a few of the mole mounds with bamboo canes. The idea is that the moles do not like the noise of the wind whistling on the top of the bottle or the rattle from the cane.
We were very surprised when we arrived back at Easter to discover that there had been NO new mole mounds since our last visit and that the beer bottle solution may have worked!!! To prove the solution, we have now removed all of the bottles to see if that mounds return, indicating a mole is back. In which case we will certainly replant the bottles and we may do so regardless, in an attmept to keep them away.
