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		<title>Moles in the Kitchen Garden</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Moles (latin name &#8211; Talpa europaea)
are a pest when they come into the vegetable garden and disturb the
roots of the vegetables by tunnelling underneath them. They push up
heaps of soil at intervals, and if this is in a row of seeds, the seeds
will be pushed all over the place.
 
The mole hills are made up of [...]


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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>Moles </strong>(latin name &#8211; Talpa europaea)<br />
are a pest when they come into the vegetable garden and disturb the<br />
roots of the vegetables by tunnelling underneath them. They push up<br />
heaps of soil at intervals, and if this is in a row of seeds, the seeds<br />
will be pushed all over the place.</p>
<div id="attachment_617" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 160px"><a rel="attachment wp-att-617" href="http://topveg.com/2007/04/moles-in-the-kitchen-garden/mole-hill/"><img class="size-thumbnail wp-image-617" title="mole-hill" src="http://topveg.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/mole-hill-150x150.jpg" alt="mole-hill" width="150" height="150" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">mole-hill</p></div>
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<p>The mole hills are made up of soil with a beautiful texture. It has very<br />
small crumbs and is often collected to put in pots to grow seeds. The<br />
mole hills are produced when the mole pushes the soil out of its tunnel,<br />
or run. Under the mole hill is the hole leading to the run. A long metal<br />
object, like a scewer, can be used to push into the surrounding soil to<br />
look for the run. If the scewer goes in easily, it will be entering the<br />
tunnel. The soil can be removed to expose the run. Mole control items<br />
can be left in the run, before covering it up again, to exclude all the<br />
light.</p>
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<p>Moles eat earthworms and other small animals. A healthy garden will have<br />
a lot of earthworms, which help improve the soil and keep it in good<br />
condition. The vegetable gardener needs to encourage earthworms, but the<br />
worms attract the moles. Moles just appear out of the blue, and the<br />
trick is to send them off to another feeding ground as soon as they<br />
arrive, by making your patch unattractive to moles.</p>
<p><strong>Mole Control</strong></p>
<p> Bad smells &#8211; will send the moles off to fresh places! Place<br />
smelly objects in the run, such as moth balls, pickled onions,</p>


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