Tunnels in your yard and flowerbeds!
I have lots of tunnels in my yard and my flower beds. What can I do about moles and voles?
Indeed having lots of tunnels in the yard and flowerbeds is definite indicator of being afflicted with those grub-eating moles. Voles are not always present with moles, but when they are, they do take advantage of the access to your plants that moles provide to them.
Control options
- Apply a castor oil product over the affected lawn and mulch beds. This will repel moles and voles from the area for about 3 months.
- Consider using stone mulch instead of bark mulch around plants as voles dislike having to burrow through hard material. Also bark mulches provide voles the ideal habitat to live and reproduce.
- Use "Vole-bloc", a hard granular product that you add to the soil when planting, to make barriers that will reduce voles access to the plants.
- Hang predator urine dispensers bobcat urine works best, around the area to repel voles, moles and other rodents.
- Mole traps are very effective. Place them over active tunnels to make instant mole compost. Active tunnels are those that the mole will fix within 24 hours after you flatten it out.
- Since moles need a lot of worms and grubs, reduce their interest in your yard by controlling grubs with "Milky Spore Disease" product. This is a bacteria that infects grubs and can persist in the soil for at least 10 years.