Re: mourning
Moles are hard to eliminate because they are always
making new runs and don't use their old ones that
often. There are two types of traps you can get. One
is a scissors type and the other looks like a "bed of
nails." I've had my best luck with the bed of nails
type. I've never had any luck with poison or gasses.
The real trick to catching them is to find a run that
they are using. To do this - tramp down six inches of
a run and leave the rest intact. Then check back for
several days and see if they have fixed it. If you
find one that they fix, set your trap on that run.
Moles are annoying and damage roots with all their
digging but they don't usually kill a plant since they
eat grubs and worms. Gopher's will sometimes eat the
roots of plants and kill them. Make sure that what
you have is not a gopher because you can't catch
gopher's with a mole trap.
Good luck.
vince
--- Necih29@cs.com wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I am one of the 771 Rockwell experiments.
> Things have been going
> ok till yesterday. I have planted 2 plants in my
> dad's patch. The first one
> "Marlin" was going strong and had good growth.
> Thought I was really gonna
> get something out of him. The second one "Sterling"
> was a runt. He looked
> sick, was slow to grow and way behind the others.
> Just knew for sure I would
> lose him. But this last week "Sterling" has doubled
> in size and has really
> taken off. I thought wow this will be a good first
> year for me. Then
> yesterday my get the phone call I have been
> dreading. My dad tells me we
> lost "Marlin". Moles have dug under him and killed
> all the roots. Nothing
> could be done. So now as I mourn the loss of
> "Marlin" I can at least go on
> having high hopes with "Sterling". Does anyone else
> have moles? What do you
> do about them? If a mole comes near "Sterling" I
> don't want to think what I
> might do. Thanks for any help.
>
> Denise Hacker
> (dad) Dan Westfall P.B. 647.5 1999
> Springfield, MO
> http://ourworld.cs.com/Necih29
>
>
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