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08:50, Monday, April 30, 2007 .. Posted in Growing Things .. 0 comments .. Link

Bothering-

Sprinkle Weed & Feed over your yard, they don't like it

Pouring undiluted liquid Lysol concentrate into their tunnels

Pouring ammonia into their tunnels

Using those little flags they use to mark gas lines. All you have to do is stick it into the tunnel. The vibration will keep the gophers out. They do not use tunnels with something in them.

Stuffing garlic cloves down the holes

Planting garlic plants

Putting a dead gopher down the hole

Having gopher killing dogs or cats

Bombing-

"gopher gasser" Sulphur bombs

the RODEX 4000 www.rodexindustries.com

chunks of road flares (cheaper than gopher gassers) or the big smoke bombs you can get around the 4th of July

Poisoning-

Putting Juicy Fruit Gum into their tunnels, not a 'nice' way to go

Bottle of Propane(trailer or barbecue tank) equipped with 8 to 10 ft. rubber hose. Open gopher run. Stuff hose down hole. Cover hole entrance with dirt or mud. Open propane valve. Leave open till you smell gas. Close valve. Go do something for and hour. Pull hose out of run and celebrate victory.

Plant "Gopher Plants" (Euphorbia lathyris - Caper Spurge). Supposedly the roots and the seeds are poisonous/noxious to gophers

Hooking a pipe from the exhaust on a vehicle, L/G tractor etc. to the hole and letting it idle for a few minutes

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