Mole ? is killing off my garden

Well I knew I had problems when I started seeing tunnels throughout the garden. It tunneled under my garlic, my onions and all over the place. The onions and garlic seemed to survive well enough. The corn and pole beans are not.

The corn is falling over and the beans seemed to be getting chewed off at the base so the vines which are full of beautiful long beans are dieing off .... I had to go out again this morning and pick everything that was on damaged vines. The tunnels seem to run right along and under my pole tower.

We have placed two of those impaling traps in the garden and we have moved them to the freshest tunnels we find but so far no luck.

Any ideas on what else I can do ? This thing has to die .....

Moles don't eat plant roots. They eat grubs that eat plant roots.
Huge misnomer here

Well everything that is being destroyed is right at the tunnels, that is why i blamed the moles. The beans are being chewed off right at the base, not eaten just chewed through. any ideas on what this could be???

Voles

then they are too small for the traps?? what can i do to get rid of them??

It ain't easy. Many species rely mostly on tunnels so they are hard to reach. http://landscaping.about.com/cs/pests/a/vole_control_3.htm http://www.handmgophercontrol.com/molesandvoles.html http://secretcorners.net/weblog/blogs/index.php/2010/03/08/vole-wars?blog=2 http://www.ehow.com/how_5571686_eradicate-voles.html

A good hunting cat will get many of them, but the drawbacks are using your garden as a litter box and they also take out as many birds as voles. I have used tunnel smoke bombs ssemi succesfully around fruit trees. These are things that look like a giant firecracker, you light fuse stuff it into the a tunnel and cover the hole. They send a toxic gas through the tunnel. Not for use in cultivated plot tho. Need a hard surface aornd the tunnel,

My dogs can smell them in their tunnels and dig and catch them. We have the biggest vole problem in Spring when soil has been turned. I think it facilitates their tunneling. We had to fence the garden to keep the dogs from trenching for voles and try to divert the voles by sticking blackberry canes where we see tunnels going into the garden. I'm not sure how well that works but things seem to calm down later in the season and we don't see tunnels anymore. Maybe they go off foraging elsewhere.

Well after I left for work yesterday the other half said he was going old school and took mouse traps laced with peanut butter out into the garden. In less than 12 hours we have 6 bodies and several escapes (snapped but no body). I am waiting for it to get light so I can go into the garden and look at traps to see if there are anymore.

The first 2 bodies came right at the bean tower where the most significant damage was done, so hopefully it was the guilty.