It appears that the garden has a resident mole.
Now, I have no beef with moles. They eat grubs, they don’t eat plants, and the minor annoyance of having to stamp down my walkway pavers which have been heaved up by tunneling is, honestly, pretty minor.
But.
Now, I have no beef with moles. They eat grubs, they don’t eat plants, and the minor annoyance of having to stamp down my walkway pavers which have been heaved up by tunneling is, honestly, pretty minor.
But.
Where there is a mole tunnel, there is often an opportunistic vole coming in to chow down on plants. And more importantly, it drives Hound bonkers and she will dig for them, causing untold havoc. We lost one mole and two hostas to this last winter.
Still, I’m really kinda thrilled the dirt is loose enough now for a mole to come along. I started on grim Carolina clay, the kind they make literal bricks out of, so this is a nice mild nuisance to have.
At the moment I’m just gonna keep an eye on things and grumble as I re-level the occasional paver.
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