How do you cheaply get rid of moles?
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Joe A.
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I have tried poison pellets in the holes. Have done a lime application, but still they keep tearing up my yard. My neighbor just paid like $1500 for treatments,I can't afford that.
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He chased them all over to you! I don't know, our dog got rid of ours.
My house had been uninhabited for a couple years before I purchased it. Place was crawling with burrowing rodents and crickets. I tried a trap, and caught one and they are mean little suckers. My ex hubby built me a windmill out of random stuff out of our garages and a trip to a hardware store. I went and looked at them and they were more than i could afford, so he built one. Worked like a charm. We gave it to a nice young couple when we were done with it. The vibration is what they don't like and move on.
Hi, Joe,
If you don't have access to the windmill type device, you can spray your yard with a mixture of castor bean oil and garlic, but leave a small area untouched, so moles can escape.
See https://pestkill.org/moles/castor-oil.
If you plant Euphorbia Lathyris, castor bean plants, daffodils, Crown Imperial, etc., moles will avoid the area.
We used a water filled roller behind our riding mower. No hassle no chemicals. Pretty sure you can rent a roller with a handle that you would walk behind.
I poured Ammonia down the holes..never saw them again.
Castor oil and Dawn soap. spray in their runs, or pour in their holes.. My neighbor uses the ammonia says it works also.
I've been told that moles make 3 runs - 2 are false and one is active so I'm guessing you'd have to use the castor oil/ammonia and/or dawn in each one but doesn't that ruin the grass?