David Relf, a retired surveyor, has lived in France’s Dordogne valley for the past 28 years, in an ancient farmhouse on a 100-acre estate with a lot of lawn…and a lot of moles.

So he has had plenty of trial ground space for his new EasySet Mole Trap – a modern twist on an old concept.

David’s invention is a user-friendly device that solves some of the problems that beset some other designs – like leaving injured moles to suffer, pinching your fingers when setting, and filling up with soil and stones. As its name implies, the EasySet is set with a single push of the trigger. It’s neat, safe, unobtrusive – and, says David, deadly effective.

David has been successfully selling direct to consumers, but at his first Glee, has been picking up promising enquiries from garden centres, a number of whom have taken away samples to try out.

He trades under the name of Beagle Garden Products (5J54) and can also supply a mole run probe and spade to make trap accurate placement easier.