2024 Author: Gavin MacAdam | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 13:38
This animal is, of course, funny … But only when it is a hero from a fairy tale, or a cartoon representative of the animal world. In reality, the mole is able to dig tunnels under the breadwinner gardens up to 150-200 meters, and at the same time spoil the future harvest, or even completely deprive the gardener of the garden provisions. The mole does not act in the best way when it wields, if not in the garden, but in the garden. Lawns, lovingly planted and ennobled by gardeners, dug up by moles, are a pitiful sight. How to deal with this uninvited guest in the garden and in the garden? In fact, there are a number of humane ways to get rid of and drive a mole out of your garden plot
What might you not know about a mole?
Many summer residents, gardeners and gardeners are mistaken, being sure that it is the mole that devours the roots of cultivated plants in their garden or in the garden. But no, the mole has nothing to do with it. And if they are gnawed, then they are not at all by this animal. Moles are not vegetarians. And vegetables, the root system of plants are bypassed. These are predators that hunt for completely different prey.
But what exactly is in their competence is the dug passages under the summer cottage soil. As a result of the voids underground and trenches inside, the so-called funnels are formed. When watering, water flows down into them, and does not settle on the beds. At the same time, the soil is rinsed from the root system of plants into the funnel along with the water. Vegetables, greens, and other fruits remain hanging in the void, not watered, not using fertilizers from the soil, which the gardener supplies them, and so on.
As a result, we pull out dried, undeveloped plant roots from the soil. What can we say about the harvest? The enemy, as they say, must be known by sight. The mole is blind. It's right. But in him this natural deficiency was compensated by an excellent sense of smell and hearing. Therefore, we will influence those zones of his perception that work "with a bang."
A blind animal should not be fought alone, but better together with neighbors in the country or even the entire summer cottage community, since a mole that has left your site will come to the next one, and then return to yours. Therefore, you need to drive it as far as possible from cultural plantings.
Influencing his sense of smell
Since the mole does not like some scents. Its mole entrances should be "aromatized" with certain products or substances. But this must be done on the border of the site, and not in the middle, so that the mole does not even come up to it.
So, in the mole you can put: naphthalene tablets, a few spoons of tar, kerosene, Vishnevsky's ointment. Rotten herring heads, sour milk, rotten eggs will do.
As an additional way of influencing the mole's sense of smell, planting legumes in your garden, for example, beans, lupins, beans. Do not plant these plants too densely, about 50-70 centimeters between seeds. Plant a plant such as imperial hazel grouse. For some reason, the smell of these plants reminds the mole of mothballs or the aroma of kerosene. Therefore, he will not come close to the site where they grow.
Lay the moles' passages in the area with hemp, with its twigs. When cannabis twigs form humus, they create an unpleasant odor for the mole. This method is suitable for the next 2-3 years, no longer.
Influencing the hearing of a mole
The mole does not like excessive noise, he "hits" him in the ears. You are unlikely to see a mole hole near a swamp or pond where reeds grow. It is the noise of reeds that scares away moles.
Stick one reed with a height, preferably a larger one, into the wormhole. When there is wind, the reeds will rustle, the mole will quickly get tired of such a restless cacophony and he will leave the site further.
You can insert sticks around the perimeter of the site, on which to plant metal cans from Pepsi-Cola. In the wind, such banks will also create noisy sounds that scare away mole families.
Mole barrier mesh
Quite a laborious tool, but justifying itself. It is a method of breaking in a fine wire mesh deep into the ground along the perimeter of the site. You need to dig in the mesh to a depth of half a meter, but you can also deeper. From above, the net should protrude 20 cm above the soil so that the mole does not climb over it from above.
Such a grid blocks the garden from the invasion of moles. In addition, it allows useful insects and worms to roam in the soil. Victories for your summer cottages in the mole wars!
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