moles indeed!

[wendyp]

I was going to post on this subject! My garden is all raised beds filled with composted cow manure on top of undiggable clay and rocks (I discovered no-dig out of necessity). The moles haven’t been much trouble the last couple of years, and I generally believe in leaving them be, but this year they’ve gone bonkers! When planting small plants, the trowel is forever dropping into a void, and I often have trouble finding a solid place to plant. Quite a few plants have keeled over as if drought-struck, which I guess is the mole digging a tunnel under them. I don’t think there is much point in setting traps as we ajoin open fields and more will just move in, but is there any way of deterring the little menaces or driving them deeper into the soil??