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| texdane |
Posted - Apr 10 2012 : 05:24:34 AM
In and around my flower cutting garden, there are little, deep holes, which look like tunnels. Moles? What else makes holes? What do y'all suggest I do? So far, it doesn't look like there is any damage to my plants (visually). 
Nicole
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| rough start farmgirl |
Posted - Apr 10 2012 : 10:35:16 PM
Ugh! Aren't they just gross!
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| crittergranny |
Posted - Apr 10 2012 : 9:25:22 PM
Maybe gophers? But gophers make mounds and pretty big holes. If so use gopher traps.
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| gramadinah |
Posted - Apr 10 2012 : 2:09:32 PM
Caster oil spray they don't like the taste or smell I started close to house and then everyday moved our 20 feet that way you make a caster oil fence Unfortunately it does not kill them just moves them so if you have neighbors all you will do is move them over to their house I have lots of forest that I move them to. It does smell but the little varmints are gone further away.
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| ceejay48 |
Posted - Apr 10 2012 : 1:47:57 PM
We have gophers that do that and they are a big, bloody nuisance!!!!!! AND, they go along the "underside" of garden vegetable such as carrots and beets and munch them from below. You don't know they are until you either pull one and find part of it missing or they are at it long enough to cause the top of the plant wilt.
They are terrible here!!!
CJ
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| Bella |
Posted - Apr 10 2012 : 11:32:02 AM
Voles also make the same sort of routes that moles make. Voles look like little mice and aren't as ugly as moles. They are very destructive and will eat flower bulbs (but not daffodils which are poisonous to them). Some people put Juicy Fruit chewing gum (previously chewed) inside the holes. I don't know why Juicy Fruit, looks like any sort of gum would do. There are traps, but I believe they are considered cruel and are banned in some areas. My cat digs up both moles and voles and presents them to us on our doorstep.
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| Bear5 |
Posted - Apr 10 2012 : 08:23:52 AM
We have moles here that do that; small tunnels with dirty scooped up on the sides. Last year we had them all over. So far this year there are not so many.
Marly
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| jan49829 |
Posted - Apr 10 2012 : 05:50:50 AM
I have squirrels that dig holes all over the place. They are a messy animal.
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