Got a mole issue in my yard .

[chickenreyna]

I have tried multiple attempts i googled online

Mothballs in tunnels
Juicy fruit gum in its tunnels
Drowing it out with water hose

Im broke until next Friday so cant buy mole poisoning i hate using anything to toxic: - hes ....destroying my front yard and gardens: (

 

[ChickNanny13]

Have used Juicy Fruit gum (rolled up) for gophers, worked for me. Just need to be consistent but not sure about moles. Try those "gas" bombs, they're kind of neat, think it's sulfur gas. Helps find all the tunnel openings, then roll the Juicy Fruit Gum down the tunnels. Good luck, sorry I'm not much help.

 

[April’s Zoo]

Traps or poison — those are really your options. None of the things you listed will do any good....
If you were going for natural, mothballs are not.... they are actually toxic to the environment and full of cancer-causing chemicals. And they are as expensive as the proper bait or repellent.
You can’t drown them out, because you can’t possibly flood every part of their tunnel system at the same time. The tunnels you see are only a tiny part of the system they have dug out.
You can find mole and gopher repellent, as well as poison, at Walmart in the garden department. There are options that are less toxic than others, but in my experience they are less effective, too. Whatever you choose, follow the instructions carefully— both to identify the offending rodent, as well as make sure the product you use works as designed. More is not always better....
With the repellent, you must be willing to follow the regimen given in the instructions, it takes a week or so to apply it properly... it’s applied to different areas on successive days. If you take shortcuts, it won’t work. It is virtually non-toxic to people and pets, but it will generally work... but again, only if you follow the instructions precisely.

Traps can be purchased online, but are considerably more expensive.

 

[ChickNanny13]

 

[Zinjifrah]

I haven't had to deal with moles yet. The only one of those I've killed was an accident, while tamping down the dirt tunnel track from its burrowing, years back in a place that actually HAD moles... The mole happened to be in the tunnel when I stepped down on it to tamp the dirt. Crunch.

Lately, I've been dealing with pocket gophers. The one I ended up having is responsible for killing my raspberries, both of my apple trees, a peach tree, my honeysuckle flowering vines, a maple tree, and a crabapple tree. He even decimated my rugosa rose bushes, though they're starting to come back, and did serious harm to another peach tree.

After trying repellents, solar spikes, cat and dog feces down the burrows, and everything else that everyone could recommend as a way to encourage the gopher to find a different feasting ground, I caved and bought a Cinch trap. That's the kind that was recommended to me by the person who laughed about all my efforts to encourage the gopher to go live elsewhere.

I believe they make smaller sizes for moles. Four hours after setting the trap, I returned to find a huge pocket gopher - about three pounds - caught in it. Apparently I'd been feeding it very well. Today, I noticed new digging on one of its old burrows, dug it out to expose the tunnel, and set the trap again. Within two hours I'd caught the new resident. Unfortunately, I suspect that short of digging up what could potentially be a 2 acre burrow system that can go up to ten feet deep and demolishing it, that I'm going to have an ongoing problem with gophers finding the existing burrows and moving in. At this point, I'm just planning on leaving the trap set and checking it regularly. The mechanism is placed down inside the burrow, so there's no risk of it catching a dog, cat or chicken.

 

[April’s Zoo]

I would think that applying the repellent at the heaviest and most frequent application rates listed on the package would be helpful once you’ve evicted the current occupant, Zinjifrah.... There’s generally only one gopher per tunnel system.... but there can be several tunnels in a given area....

Here’s a good info site that might help, especially the suggestions for protecting plants. http://ipm.ucanr.edu/PMG/PESTNOTES/pn7433.html

 

[Ninjasquirrel]

You could always just watch the ground with a pitchfork. We use a scissor trap. Its about 25 bucks at tsc. Works like a charm.