I want them out of the flower beds. I don’t care that they are not dead. Any I kill are immediately replaced from the neighbors yard. I can’t kill them off.
I am looking for people that have used it. Tell me if you’ve used it when you comment, so I know you tried it please. Obviously I don’t trust the company marketing pages on it’s effectiveness.
I have tried castor oil. I have also tried poison peanuts and the $2/worm newfangled rubbery worm poison. I have tried the little clicky windmill thing and the solar and/or battery powered sonic repellers (one of which was actually pushed out of the ground by a mole.) I have tried smoke bombs, flooding, and running a hose from the exhaust pipe of the car into the tunnels.
It’s been a few years since I did the research so I don’t have links handy, but if you look around you will find two types of sites about getting rid of moles: those that are trying to sell you a gadget or gimmick, and those that tell you gadgets or gimmicks other than traps don’t work. The ones telling you that only trapping works tend to be university agricultural sites and professional exterminators and the like.
If you’re talking about a small flower bed or two and don’t care if the moles run through the rest of the yard the bit in that PDF about underground fencing might work for you.
I have wire fencing under ground that reduces the moles getting into the beds. It doesn’t stop them from running into the bed above ground, digging in and starting a colony. It sounds like I’ll be doing what I’ve done for years. I’ll be dropping poison pellets in active tunnels and using my spike trap that gets them sometimes. I really don’t care about the lawn, just the garden beds. The Castor Oil Pellets is something I hadn’t seen before.