What did you do today?

[Tigerhair]

The three of us walked up the garden digging up the soil deposited by the moles and saving it for my new veggie patch....!!!

[Hepsibah]

Got moles? Try putting a stick of juicy fruit gum in the holes. I've no idea how it works, but it does.

[ina]

a stick of juicy fruit gum

Could you be a bit more particular please? Fruit flavoured chewing gum - or what is it? (Sorry, I'm not really up in all these sweetie things...)

But we do have a lot of moles, and that's exactly what I thought this morning - should get out there with a bucket and get some soil! But I didn't. Apart from feeding the livestock, I didn't do much... Put muck on the rhubarb. Baked some (very healthy) banana and chocolate muffins. (Haven't even tried them yet...) Spent the afternoon on the internet.

Hey Tigerhair - how are you all? Throats any better, and how's the little one - still itching?

Ina

[Tigerhair]

CHEWING GUM??? You're having a laugh!?? Still, cheap and worth a try just so you guys can giggle at the results!! Thanks

Ina - muffins sound YUMMY Update on itchy, scratchy and the crew on the other message

[ina]

What a picture: Dozens of moles sticking their heads out of the ground and chewing away...

Ina

[Tigerhair]

ROFLMAO

[Shirley]

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Put muck on the rhubarb. /snip
Ina

rhubarb!! Now... are your plants big enough for separating and plant donor card?? I'm looking to acquire some for my garden

[Millymollymandy]

I pruned the lower bits of some of my apple trees but need to get up a ladder! My husband cut down a huge overgrown hazel so lots of firewood, fence posts, bean poles etc. Trouble with cutting down trees or branches is we end up with so much kindling we don't need!

And I kicked a few mole hills around and squidged down the channels they make just under the soil surface (more irritating than the mole hills). I'm just waiting for the day my entire garden collapses down several inches.

The sun shone and it was +7C which is a heatwave!!!

[ina]

rhubarb!! Now... are your plants big enough for separating and plant donor card?? I'm looking to acquire some for my garden

Have to find out when best to do that - one of the plants was there when I moved in, that should be big enough! (At the moment there's not much to be seen.)

Ina

[Wombat]

Worked, drove to Newcastle and back, watered veggies ans checked the chooks - 38 degC here, run of the mill summer day really..............(gasp, shudder, collapse!)

Nev

[glenniedragon]

I don't know how you guys down under cope in 38 degrees, anything over 20 and I'm a wilting flower!

[Wombat]

Yep, she gets mighty warm out our way - up to 45 degC on New Years Day. That is just too hot! All you can do is lie in the air conditioning like a beached whale!

It is 10:15pm as write this and a bit over 30 deg here in the house, but a southerly buster has arrived and that will drop the temperature somewhat - at least giving us a chance of sleep!

Nev

[Hepsibah]

This is the stuff.



I'm baffled as to the reason it works, but it really does. Ask around on the Practical poultry forum, they've had some sucess with it.

[ina]

Anything to get rid of moles - even if the neighbours laugh... I don't actually have any in my garden, but my friend has a few, and is currently trying all sorts of mole traps. I'll get her a packet of chewing gum next time I'm shopping!

I suppose I have to unwrap them for the moles, or do they do that themselves...

Ina

[shiney]

What a great tip for getting shot of moles! I'd love feedback from people who have them digging up their gardens.

To be honest I am not keen on that flavoured gum, I guess the moles aren't either. Anyone tried any other flavours? Who ever discovered such a trick I wonder?