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Re: Mulch

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Road flares DO work - I've tried them. For larger numbers of gophers, it
might be cheaper to use a weed torch (large flame wand with a 5 gallon tank
of propane).  Put a handful of sugar sulfur (from Ag supply stores - the
sulfur is in little flake-like chunks) in the open tunnel and play the wand
on it for ten minutes or so.  After a bit you see yellow smoke puff up some
distance away as the fumes reach the far ends of the tunnels.  Give it
another five minutes after that, and no more gopher.  The sulfur is quickly
oxidized in the soil and has no long-lasting effects.
-Lon Rombough
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>From: "Doreen Howard" <doreen@fgi.net>
>To: <tom.boehme@pharma.Novartis.com>, <sqft@listbot.com>
>Subject: Re: Mulch
>Date: Sat, Mar 20, 1999, 6:01 PM
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>Please share the results of your road flare--gopher experiment.  Photos
>would be nice, too!!  <giggle>
>Doreen Howard
>-----Original Message-----
>From: tom.boehme@pharma.Novartis.com <tom.boehme@pharma.Novartis.com>
>To: sqft list <sqft@listbot.com>
>Date: Saturday, March 20, 1999 6:24 PM
>Subject: Re: Mulch
>
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>>
>>>Olin reported,
>>
>>>"According to recent research in California there are no toxic effects
>>from
>>>using either fresh or composted eucalyptus leaves as a mulch for other
>>>plants.  etc."
>>
>>
>>I love this list.  I spread Eucalyptus chips because that was all we had.
>>      Oak chips arrived the next day.  I was planning to rake off the euc
>>      chips.  Now I can relax and go back to the gopher hunt ;-)  Any body
>>      know of a documented reason to Not use road flares to gas out
>>      gophers?
>>
>>
>>
>>Tom B
>>
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