In addition to the deer that want to eat our garden, we have a groundhog living uner the shed and … moles.

The groundhog isn’t a problem. It hasn’t bothered the flowerbeds and the vegetables are in raised beds it can’t get in to. So, we haven’t really cared about sharing space with it. It looks like a thick weasel that wanders across the yard every once in a while.

The moles are another story.

We’ve had voles in the past and ran them off with some solar powered noisy stakes that we got from Amazon. They were effective then. These pests seem to be more stubborn. There was some dirt turned up around the yin/yang stepping stone this morning.

We stomp their tunnels and generally try to make things unpleasant for them. I think they are why there has been some dead wood on the rice paper bush. I think they’ve been eating its roots.

If they would eat the trees-of-heaven, we would be happy for them to live here. But, they don’t appear to think those are tasty. So, we prefer them to leave.