Bonide MOLEMAX Mole & Vole Repellent Granules, 10 lbs. Ready-to-Use, Outdoor Lawn & Garden Mole Control, People & Pet Safe

When used as instructed, this has worked the best out of everything I have tried to keep voles out of my yard.

Bought this Bonide molemax to try and chase gophers out of my front yard. I followed the directions to spread it in stages over a few days and the presence of new mounds stopped in the treated areas. According to the information on the bag you need to repeat the application every 2-3 months so it's not a very long-lasting solution but it does seem to work.

This definitely moves the moles along, at least in my small yard. I have a weird situation where they are bound in by concrete (driveway, sidewalk, stairs, house foundation) on all sides, so hard to say where exactly they are going, but honestly, I don’t care that much as long as it is away from my yard.I use a small handheld gardening shovel to make holes into their tunnels and pour the Mole Max in. Then I stomp the tunnels down, sprinkle the rest of the yard (except for an “escape” path for them) with the product and water with the hose for 10 min or so. For maintenance I sprinkle the yard about once every 7-14 days and water it as above. If I see any activity I once again add the Mole Max to their tunnels, stomp them and water. The area I am dealing with is pretty small so the 10 lb bag has lasted me a while and the actual applying it doesn’t take that long. If you have a lot of property, you probably want a spreader.

I have tried all kinds of traps and poisons for gophers. I decided to try this despite little available research-based evidence that it works. It definitely does not work well in a localized application to protect a tree/plants, but it might work a little to deter from a bigger area.Evidence: I wanted to protect the roots of a young citrus tree that a gopher was interested in. I spread this heavier than recommended in a 6 ft radius around the tree. Watered it in as instructed. The gopher was back with new tunnels and mounds right where this stuff was the very next night! I then put this stuff directly in soil that I used to plug the main tunnel about 2 ft long, also as directed. The next morning the gopher had re-excavated directly through the heavily laced main tunnel!I then spread the rest of the bag using a spreader across a larger area of adjacent grass that also had gopher activity. This area measured about 20' X 60'. I laid it down heavier than recommended. to give it the best chance of working. We could smell it during the evening in the yard. With this bigger application the gophers seemed to have been annoyed and moved away from that area to an adjacent untreated area as intended. Hard to know if that was coincidence or the product worked better when used across a bigger area.It seems a determined gopher will just ignore this in a local space that they like, but they might be annoyed enough by it in a bigger space to move to another space.

Advertised as safe for "people and pets". On the back label are six small words "not for use on edible plants". I am an experienced gardener and read everything but this was so isolated in the use text, it was easy to miss. I treated my 640 sq. ft. greenhouse for a mole that moved in and now it sits useless for the summer as there is no published data if ricin is absorbed by plant roots.

I tried this last year (Fall 2023) after I lost a lot of my flower bulbs to critters, eating from below ground!I was so disgusted with them all and saw this, thought I'll try and I believe it works! When I planted Daffodil, Tulip and Hyacinth bulbs in the Fall, I dug the hole with bulb digger, put a Tbls of this into hole, added a little dirt back, put bulb in and covered with soil. This Spring (2024) I'd say every one of the bulbs I planted, came up! I also sprinkle the ground around the flower bed and I think that deters them too.As an added bonus (NOT to the critters!) I use Mole Away Repellent, also from Amazon! It's main ingredient is Castor Oil, mix 1 cup to a gallon of water in watering can with a squirt of dish liquid, water entire flower bed with it! I'd say between the two things I use, it's working to keep the little rodents away!