A cat would help.
There are several methods of mole control on the market: baiting, gassing, repellents and trapping.
Of all the forms, however mole trapping is the most reliable method of mole control
With all the methods and particularly with mole trapping, patience and persistence are the key words.
Trapping is usually easiest during the spring and fall with mole activity is at a peak. Trapping in the spring can also eliminate the pregnant females, reducing population.
It is completely essential to locate the main mole runways for successful trapping or baiting.
To identify main runways look for runways which:
Follow more or less a straight course for some distance
Appear to connect two mounds or two runway systems.
Follow fence rows, concrete paths or other man-made borders or
Follow a woody perimeter of a field or yard.
Mole nests are commonly found along protected areas like fence rows or hedgerows.
To use a mole trap, such as the VICTOR OUT O'SIGHT MOLE TRAPS first flatten the tunnels by stepping on them or by using a lawn roller.
This will allow you to tell which mole tunnels are being used, because new ones will appear the next day.
Put the Victor mole traps on these new tunnels.
Set the trap and leave it, taking care not to trample or disturb any other portion of the runway system.
Check the mole trap once or twice a day.
If a mole trap fails to produce a mole within 4-5 days, move the traps to another portion of the runway system or use another runway.
In most cases poisoned baits are not generally well accepted, but the Talpirid Mole Bait Talparid's size, shape and feel let moles consume the bait in the same manner as its primary food source, the earthworm.
Talpirid mimics the mole's natural food source and has the same size, shape and feel as earthworms.
How do you keep moles from getting my tomato plants?
You can plant wire mesh in the ground. The tomatoes will grow up %26amp; through the mesh, but the moles %26amp; other critters will be kept at bay.
Works great on flower beds, too...to prevent squirrels from eating bulbs.
Reply:By this stuff called dried blood. It stinks but it works my mom had to replant the flowers from my wedding 3 times but after she put the dried blood down it worked.
Good Luck
Reply:sprinkle chili powder on them
Reply:I have been told that if you plant Castor beans in your garden it will kill the moles. I don't know how true it is but even if it doesn't work they are attractive plants.
Reply:We had a mole digging up our whole yard. We bought a mole trap from our local Farmers Coop, which is not expensive. We set it on one of the mole's newest underground trails, which you can easily find by walking across the yard. Within 3 or 4 days, we had our mole. First time I had ever seen one. Couldn't believe how soft it was. Reading your other answers, this is the easiest and cheapest. Good luck.
Reply:Plant castor beans around the tomato plants. Also try:
placing mothball crystals into the mole runs
pieces of garlic %26amp; onion around the base of the plants
soiled(used) cat litter sprinkled into the mole runs
(bury the used cat litter under the ground along various
spots of the mole runs.)
If not able to plant castor bean, try placing castor bean oil around base of plants.
Best bet is to keep tomato cages around plants. Also learned this from an old friend of mine - string up aluminum pie pans between plants. The breeze making the pie pans move scares critters away.
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