How to Keep Moles From Ruining Your Garden or Lawn

A mole does not look like a pest but it indeed is, Moles can cause a lot of damage to your lawn overnight. They can mess up the lawn in one night and when you wake up in the morning you will be forgiven to think that there some cows grazing on your rather well manicured lawn inn the night. Molehills are very ugly to look at on a well maintain lawn and not only are they ugly but they also dangerous to human beings. If you tripped over a molehill you are likely to get an ankle spring. The burrowing of the moles can completely mess up your lawn or garden and you will need to act very fast so as to stop more damage.

Moles are actually not the direct cause to destroying your lawn but rather their activities which is something we cannot avoid because it is nature and that is their way of habitation. Moles burrow and interfere with the root network of the grass and also the roots of the flowers on the flower garden but above all it is the food that they are after on the lawn that leads them to destroy the lawn

Moles feed on earthworms, slugs, beetle larvae and other small vertebrates that move around the ground and in search of these insects, the mole destroys the lawn

Their long snouts which are good for burrowing and their tough rough feet which help them in digging out soil are responsible for the soils on the lawn an the molehills which can be done within a short while. Since moles are always hunting for food, they do all this activity all night long. It is therefore wise to find a solution to this problem else the lawn will be uneven as the moles will make more burrows and more molehills will appear on your initially flat lawn.

In order to keep the moles away from your lawn, you will have to starve them, by that you will have to get rid of any food that they may look for on the lawn or the flower garden. The first step is to ensure that the earthworms, slugs, beetle larvae and other insects that the moles feed on are not found in your lawn. Get pesticides to kill the source of food for the moles.

There are other methods like; you can put ground garlic in the tunnels of the moles. Moles do not like the smell of garlic and will not come back to a tunnel that has garlic smell. You can also introduce sounds similar to those of the moles. The sounds of the moles will make the moles already there leave as they do not want to share a lawn with fellow moles.

You as well may put up traps on the openings of the tunnels, and once you have trapped a hole, you can release way from your home. If effort is put, you combine all these methods of chasing away the moles, they will disappear and will stop spoiling your lawn and you can have a flat lawn with no molehills.