Mole damage to bulbs?

Well the snow is melting and we have discovered that a mole or several moles have tunneled through one of our biggest flower beds. At the end of the bed there is a huge pile of tulip bulbs laying on the ground some in one peice others arechewed up little bits. Can the ones on the ground whole be replanted and saved? How do we get rid of this problem with moles in 17 years of gardening here I have never had this happen.

Mole damage to bulbs?
Moles eat bugs and worms, not bulbs. Probably the culprit is a squirrel. They dig tulips up and eat them. This is why you found all the bulbs at one end of the garden. The squirrel digs one up then takes it to a place where he can look out for predators while he eats it. Or maybe it is some other critter. You don't say where you live. I've answered based on my experience in New England.





So, you have two problems.


1. Moles tunneling in your garden. The worst damage they will do is pushing your plants up and exposing the roots. I say, leave them to do their job of eating Japanese beetle and other grubs which can hurt your plants more than they will.


2. Squirrels digging up your tulip bulbs. Replant the whole and mostly whole (a bite or two won't hurt most of them) bulbs, then lay down a piece of chicken wire (the fencing that looks like anemic chain-link), then put mulch over the chicken wire. The chicken wire will keep the squirrels from digging down to the bulbs.
Reply:They eat bugs not your bulbs. Suggest bug spray or pellets. The moles will go away hungry.
Reply:the whole ones can be saved, when replanting cut out the bottom of a coffee cup the poly white ones put the cup in the hole than put the bulb in the cup fill the hole with dirt and that should solve the problem
Reply:eugh


kill the moles, you should.


get spmeone else do to it, you could