She ordered a 6-pack in late March.
Followed the instructions pushed each stake 3 to 5 inches into the soil, spaced about 40 feet apart around her yard and garden beds.
And then she waited.
The first few days, nothing dramatic. She spotted a couple of new surface ridges and felt her heart tighten the way it always did. But she'd been told to expect a short adjustment period as the moles reacted to the new environment.
By day nine, she noticed something.
No new tunnels.
She walked the whole yard slowly, the way she always did to check for soft spots. Nothing collapsed under her feet. No fresh mounds in the rose bed. No new ridges threading through the vegetable garden.
She walked it again the next morning. And the morning after that.
"I kept waiting for it to fail," she said. "I was so used to being let down that I couldn't believe it was actually working. I must have checked that yard every single day for two weeks before I let myself feel hopeful."
By the end of April, her lawn was cleaner than it had been in three years.
By May, the grass was growing back over the old tunnel scars.
By June, her daughter's flowers were blooming undisturbed, for the first time since they'd planted them together.
"My daughter came outside one morning and she said, 'Mom, the flowers are back.' And I just stood there in the yard and I cried again. But it was different this time."