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Re: Burrowing Pests - Advice Needed


     Harry,
     
     I buried chicken wire walls to block gophers.  It works but...the wire 
     gets in the way of my digging in the garden too.  I would do two 
     things differently now.
     
     First;  Wire up the entire plot in one go.  I did sections and now 
     that I'm changing the layout I have to fight through numerous buried 
     chicken wire walls.
     
     Second;  Bury the wire several inches 'outside' of your plot 
     perimeters.  My wire is right along the edge of the squares and my 
     shovel snags all the time when I'm trying to cultivate.
     
     I probably won't ever do that again.  At the time I had a free summer 
     and wanted the exercise.  Burying chicken wire went along with double 
     digging the entire plot.
     
     It was cool seeing the gopher trails come up to my garden and then go 
     around (not in).  This gave me time to get Mcabee traps in before they 
     found my vegetables.
     
     Don't bother with the 'gopher gas bombs'.  They don't smoke long 
     enough to kill/chase out the critters.  A road flare really does the 
     job but does anyone on the list know what a flare leaves in your 
     soil!?  My advice is stick with traps.
     
     Tom B
     P.S.  Don't blow yourself up with the carbide trick (even through it 
     sounds like an awful lot of fun)


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Subject: Burrowing Pests - Advice Needed 


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In SFG, Mel suggests lining a raised bed with wire n" deep.  Has anybody
tried this?  It almost sounds like it would keep burrowers out and still
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not to "cage" the underside of the bed, but instead to drop wire mesh
straight down another 12" along the sides of the bed.  Guess I figured that
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