Expelling mole - 8 tips

The mole is actually very useful. However, its mounds drive many garden owners mad. My 8 tips help to expel the mole.

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They are useful, they are also cute to look at - but please not in your own garden! We're talking about moles. With their tiny little blades, moles create a subterranean vein system that many hardly believe possible. The result is unloved mounds on the lawn of the garden. How to fight the mole or rather expel, explain our 8 tips.

You can not kill a mole, because it is under protection of species , but you can drive it out. At least you can try it with these possibilities:

Tip 1: pour sour yoghurt or sour milk into the aisles

For this classic household tip, you'll need to remove the mound and expose the mole hole. Then just the sour yogurt, or the sour milk, tilt in the mole passage. Then add a little soil to the home remedy so that you are not bothered by the smell and repeat this with as many holes as possible. If you're lucky, the mole will soon be fed up with it.

Tip 2: Expel Mole with a crash

Invite many children or at least work a lot in the garden, especially several days in a row. Moles love the silence. If they are disturbed throughout, that could drive away the little scoopers as well.

The classic among the products in this context is certainly the "Maulwurfschreck" ( available here ), which emits vibrations every 40 seconds into the ground and in this way Mole, Vole and Co. distributes.

Tip 3: Expel mole with empty glass bottles

And this is how it works: dig the empty bottles near the molehills into the ground and let the bottleneck look out about 10 centimeters. The wind now creates sounds that the moles can not stand and so maybe move.

By the way: Purchased agents that emit sound waves or fragrances are not only expensive, but usually also ineffective. Who can live with the mole and the hills, should not drive off the beneficial insect, because he eats ground pests.

If you are not satisfied with the above-mentioned remedies against the mole, you can find more ways to expel the mole.

Tip 4: catch mole trap with live trap

The live trap allows a gentle capture of the animals. No matter if mole or voles. However, the moles must then be released again unscathed in another place, because they are under nature conservation - information is given by the responsible nature conservation authorities or locally based foresters.

In addition, established live traps must also be checked regularly by the garden owner - several times a day - so that the wild animal does not have to remain in captivity for too long or could even end up in the living trap.

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Tip 5: Put molehills under water

However, another way of distributing them is to set already existing molehills under water. In doing so, the garden owner should make sure that he thoroughly flooded the soil and stepped a little hard. However, it is important to be careful that the mole is not directly in the hill area at this moment.

Also, in stubborn animals, this process must certainly be repeated several times, until they then but usually finally seek the distance.

Tip 6: Construct fragrance barriers

Track down the corridors of the Mole and add Dolfoids to them - © sp4764 / stock.adobe.com

The construction of different fragrance barriers in the corridors has proved to be very effective for repelling moles from their own garden. As a rule, it is sufficient to spread a human tuft of hair.

However, if the garden owner does not want to sacrifice his own hair, he can also try it with garlic (also like pickled garlic ), a self-made soapy water or a mixture of milk and whey. Alternatively, buttermilk would also work.

On top of that, specialist retailers even offer special moles (or odor drops ) that have already been soaked with these fragrances and can be easily laid out in the aisles. They then quickly drive the mole, which is irritated by the unfamiliar fragrances, into flight.

Alternatively, a mole pesticide can be used, which scares the animal only from the garden, but otherwise is completely harmless to him - in no case acts deadly.

Update 2011:

Through one of our advertisers, we came across two other ways to avoid molehills in the garden.

Harald Unger, co-owner of the supplier, told us of many phone calls he made with desperate garden owners and confirmed the ineffectiveness of noise developers and gasifiers. They harm the environment, annoy the neighbors and are a useless expense. He recommends two products that really help:

• mole network
• vertical barrier for retrofitting

Tip 7: Mole net

The Mole net, a horizontal barrier, is installed when the lawn is rebuilt. For nearly twenty years, this environmentally friendly product has been helping optimally. The little villagers can build their passages unhindered below the grid, but the pushing up of the unloved molehills is surely prevented. At the same time, the aisles can not be pushed in when walking on the lawn. The lawn remains as beautiful as it is. Mowing robots are not affected by the plastic grid.

Tip 8: Vertical barrier for retrofitting

Another product is the vertical barrier MolEX-F. The special Spitznoppenfolie is intended for retrofitting. Many sports fields have been permanently released from the mole problem.