Here's how to get rid of him

And before we dig further into the matter: Since these troublemakers are under nature protection, the means to get rid of them are very limited. This means that nobody has the right to injure a mole or try to kill it with toxic substances. Even if the medicine suggests that alcohol is harmful, in this case it is not.

The stink of alcohol gets on the nerves of moles so much that they love them Leave the won labyrinth under your garden beds, even in the future and for all eternity avoid. Nevertheless, nobody has to pour their entire supply of spirits into the aisles under the molehill. An empty bottle with what was formerly a high-proof liquor, which is inserted into the hole with the opening facing down, is sufficient. The trick doesn't work with beer, by the way, it should be from 40 percent by volume upwards, then the alcohol smell spreads quickly in the subterranean cave system.

Alternative methods of mole hunting

On the relevant garden blogs it is often reported that a rag soaked in alcohol leads to similar successes. The radius of action for such an action is, however, just three meters, so that this method seems a bit questionable. Garlic looks more promising. To do this, however, the toes have to be crushed so that the pungent, aromatic smell spreads widely in the cave passages. While the effect of the commercially available ultrasound devices is very controversial, certain acoustic methods are still suitable for driving away particularly hard-boiled moles. Examples of this are buried bottles, which create a kind of whistling sound as soon as wind flows into them, or even those that you have made yourself Wind turbines with squeaking noises that use buried metal posts to push the sound into the opening of the molehill reflect.

By the way: If none of the home remedies mentioned works, your uninvited garden visitors are probably not moles, but shear or shearers. Voles. And they, in turn, have a much weaker sense of smell to which to other means must be grasped.