Emerging from a tunnel
Have you trimmed your lawn yet? Traditionally Easter is the time to mow. Mr T has already been out there giving the grass a light hair cut (which is more than I have had). Mind you we do not have a lawn, in the strictest sense, it is just a corner of one of the fields with short grass. The trouble is, though, that because it is really part of a meadow, we have lots of moles. And there is nothing wrong with that, but if you have moles you will know that they can be a problem because they make mole hills. In our case right in the middle of the ‘lawn’. And apart from it being unsightly they can also burrow under our plants and I have seen such disturbance that the plant dies. Sometimes moles come near the surface to dig and I have watched the earth move in a long line. We have never seriously tried to get rid of moles though I have a friend who employs someone to do this. There are traps and fumes, and we have tried the child’s plastic windmill because moles are not supposed to ...