By Petesue
United Kingdom 
hi i have aproblem in my garden last year i had a huge problem with moles they have gone but now i have small holes all around my garden and wonderd if any body knows what they could be
4 Mar, 2011
Answers
or stoats-- we've has them going into the rabbit burrows...( hurray)
4 Mar, 2011
I'd be surprised if a stoat leaves a burrow much smaller than a rabbit's!
5 Mar, 2011
We have lots of holes around too and I speculate on what could have left them - bumble bees, mice, voles, slow worms, snakes? I don't put my finger in to find out... 8-0
We get mole tunnels under my loose laid paving - they're about 1 1/2 inch in diameter. Good worm-hunting territory, I suppose.
5 Mar, 2011
Hmm....1 1/2 inches sounds a bit tight for a mole, but what do I know. We have pocket gophers, here! : (
6 Mar, 2011
I'm sure they're mole tunnels Tug, there (are) WERE molehills either side of the path. Perhaps my memory of the diameter is a bit dodgy? I found two mummified moles on a path in my last garden a few years ago. Found one and disposed of it, then the other appeared a few weeks later. They were pretty skinny.
6 Mar, 2011
Well, like I said, I didn't know. You learn something new every day! The hard part is remembering it!! ; }
7 Mar, 2011
"The hard part is remembering it!!"
You've got it there Tug! Do you feel as if your head is completely full so there's no room for anything else sometimes?
How big are pocket gophers?
7 Mar, 2011
A little longer and skinnier than the pictures I have seen of moles, with a bigger head. They leave holes about 4-6 cm wide. Unlike moles, they actually eat plant roots. You can't call yourself a gardener here unless you have watched a carrot or turnip disappear underground, and subsequently declared war on the gophers--think Caddyshack!
9 Mar, 2011
lol! How enraging, they sound a lot worse than rabbits.
9 Mar, 2011
I've got this picture in my head of an old cartoon-- probably bugs bunny-- where the carrot disappeared downwards.......
Beattie is your avatar picture a nerine as I've some that i
I want to grow after visiting the 'guernsey lily' festival last october
10 Mar, 2011
I have the same mental picture Pam!
Yes it's a nerine, I have some Nerine bowdenii, including a few white ones. I bought those and planted them and they've sulked for a couple of years, but one or two deigned to flower last summer. I'm hoping for more this year.
10 Mar, 2011
Small holes will be mice or voles.
4 Mar, 2011