Posted: October 29 2009 at 11:09am | IP Logged

I  on a major .. major  war path  with  one  mole.   it ha s ate  the tubers  of  50 Dahlia plants   duyring the spring and summer  and  I just put  several hudred Daylily  seedlings in the ground  so that maybe  they  would start  to increase better   and  mulche d it allup and  now  the  darn mole  is  systematically  going  down the rows  and  eating my Daylilie s root s off.  

I going otu ther e and  finding  the  top of the fans  laying on their  sides  and for some even that ha s disappeared.  

I have trie d  soap, bubblegum,, hair  and  even tried   tearing up the tunnels  and   blcoking what I can  and  so far nothign has  worked.

I ha d this idea,  but not sure  i it would work or not .  I have no idea  how  far  down  mole s wil tunnel  but  I wondere d if  maybe  if  I dug  a  trench  all aroudn the beds and  put  some  very fine  holed  chichen wire  or somethign clos e to it  maybe  abotu  a foot down,    if  that would be enough to keep  the  nasty little  critter  from  eating   em all  before  they even have a hcance  to grow for  spring.  

Even   the neighbors  cats  aint been able to capture it.      A friend had  suggeste d  takign a board and  puttign nails through it and then  goign aroudn  stabbing through all the trails,  but  the way my luck goes  I liable to nail my foot  and  think tetnaus  is out of date,  plus  I  still wouldprobably  miss the  darn thing  as   Ican't see wher e the  paths  go   up the  hill just cna see them in the driveway  it crossed  and the beds. 

I hoping  somebody  has  some ideas  that might work.   I sure  don't want to have to  try and dig  them  fans all back up and report  them again.  They   was  lookign real happy to be in soem real dirt for a change.