Moles can wreck your yard and gardens practically overnight. Even though they are solitary animals, just one mole can tunnel up to 300 feet in one 10-hour period. If you are having a problem with pests in your veggies, and the mole is not wrecking your garden, you just might want to leave him alone and allow him to his job. Nevertheless, if you have a mole whose tunneling is killing your grass his mounds of dirt have become a nuisance, you will probably want to get rid of it. Everywhere you look you can find traps and poisons designed to eliminate the annoying mole, but you might not like the side effects. Poisons can be accidentally ingested by other animals and have terrible results. It can also be harmful to the Earth. Traps are not only inhumane, but other animals can stumble upon then and be injured or killed. This is DIY Earth-friendly alternative designed to drive mole from your yard without the use of dangerous traps or harmful chemicals. If you want to be rid of your mole once and for all without harming it, use this simple homemade mole remedy:



Supplies you will need: castor oil, hot pepper sauce or flakes, liquid dish detergent, water, a jar with a good seal, measuring spoon, measuring cup, spray bottle, and a blender (optional)



1. Blend 1/4 Cup castor oil, 1 Tablespoon hot pepper (the hotter the better), and 2 Tablespoons of liquid dish detergent. Blend thoroughly.

2. Put the solution in a container and add 6 tablespoons of water. Seal the container and shake to blend completely. This is your concentrated mixture and can be stored indefinitely.

When you are ready to use it your mole remedy, mix 2 Tablespoons of the remedy concentrate from the jar with 1 gallon of water. Mix well. Use a spray bottle filled with the mixture to spray around and down in the mole holes, along the top of the tunnels and around the mounds of dirt. Make sure to liberally saturate the areas. The theory behind this solution is simple. The ingredients, while harmless to animals and the Earth will taint the ground and all the bugs that live in it. The grubs, worms, etc. will taste like the soapy peppery concoction and the mole will find them repulsive. After deciding that the “food “here is spoiled, the mole will move to another location.

Once this mole bait is applied, the mole will most likely leave the area, as he will no longer like the taste of the insects that he has been eating in your yard.

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How to get rid of moles in your yard with castor oil