Timeline for How can I get rid of gophers in a non-lethal way?
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| Aug 26, 2011 at 17:15 | comment | added | Lorem Ipsum | Yeah, I'm a little skeptical on that one. I very recently read that gophers don't like gardens that are tilled regularly. This actually makes a lot of sense because the previous residents hadn't planted anything at all in over 5 years. Not even a single tree in the backyard until we moved in. So it has become a safe haven for the gophers. I plan on tilling it very soon and hopefully, that'll drive most of them away. | |
| Aug 26, 2011 at 16:13 | comment | added | Mike Perry | @yoda, I wonder if Juicy Fruit gum would work on gophers? Mort White from the TheMagicGarden.com (I listen to his weekly podcast show) swears it's an effective means of getting moles to move out of an area. But a search online shows a number of University Extension Offices claiming it to be ineffective method & "tecnically, using any unregistered material as a rodenticide (no matter how benign) is not legal". | |
| Aug 26, 2011 at 6:30 | comment | added | Lorem Ipsum | So far so good... Quite frankly, I did not know how deep to place them, so I just dug out 8" of soil and that's that. My reasoning was that I don't expect the plants I've planted in that bed to grow roots any deeper than that for the gophers to cause any harm. The chicken wire should also keep them out.. But I've now resorted to gopher poison. My organic methods have failed and they're doing more damage the longer I wait. | |
| Aug 26, 2011 at 6:11 | comment | added | Mike Perry | @yoda, has burying to a depth of 8inches (200mm) worked ok! to keep them out? Above, I suggested 2ft (200mm) because as far as I'm aware that will keep out all known borrowing/tunneling "large" animals (pests) in North America. | |
| Aug 26, 2011 at 6:05 | comment | added | Lorem Ipsum | I've resorted to cordoning off my flower beds with chicken wire planted 8" deep at the bottom and coming up to 2"deep at the sides. The gopher menace got so bad that they chewed up 12/18 dahlia plants (they like the bulbs) and nearly killing my fig tree by chewing up its roots (apparently they love fig roots). The tree is back to health now. | |
| Aug 26, 2011 at 6:02 | history | answered | Mike Perry | CC BY-SA 3.0 |