Posted: 5/27/2016 2:33:23 PM EDT
| I've tried gassing them, juicy fruit gum, the water hose and a sound/vibration pole and they are still getting my garden veggies. Lost two peppers and a tomato plant so far. Any suggestions or methods (aside from hiring Bill Murry) to get rid of these suckers? |
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You can set traps, I always dig up a run and set a trap on both entrances. You can get gopher poison, dig up openings, throw a small amount in each side and cover the hole up You can hang around in the late afternoon and catch them pushing out dirt and shoot them with a .22 Around my yard with a water hose, I dig up a run and push the water hose in and flood them out into the open. shovel does the rest. |
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Macabee traps are the only thing that work for me.
Make sure you find both sides of the tunnel and set 2 traps......then you get the bastards coming or going. It takes a bit of practice, a bit of trial and error.......but you will figure it. They really aren't as smart as Caddyshack represented them to be. |
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I went to vist a neighbor one day, he's the last house out.
I pull up and see he's on the roof, as I walk around I see him sitting with a 12 guage trained on a hole in the yard. I ask him whats up and he says he's had it with that gopher and he's making sure he gets him this time. The roof does privide a good vantage point. Try cabbage and a pellet rifle. |
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I have had good luck using a T rex rat trap and a length of pipe.
For the pipe, i have used the black corrugated plastic stuff that is generally used to extend downspouts. Put the pipe against a wall or fence and set the trap at the opening. No bait needed. The little bastards can't resist going into the "hole" to check it out. Works good on chipmunks too. |
| I am definitely going to need creativity and brutality. I use a water hose for over an hour and it doesn't even fill up. I live in a rural location on 2.5 acres next to a mile section of field. They seem to have quite the labyrinth built, when I poke down I get the first hole, if I push harder it opens up again. I'm wondering how many gophers I'm up against and how to keep them out once I have eradicated the existing. We have a spring that runs all year so we get lots of frogs, I think that keeps the snakes busy, because snakes are abundant. Stay tuned folks. You may be witnessing the start of an (unhealthy) obsession...and please keep the ideas coming. |