This is a public-interest archive. Personal data is pseudonymized and retained under GDPR Article 89.

Re: GOPHER damage

Phostoxin or Weevilcide is very effective but quite dangerous if applied incorrectly.  Gloves must be used, respirator is recommended and must be applied in dry conditions.  Never indoors and the pellets must be applied in the hole which then needs to be sealed with a paper plug and then a dirt plug.  I would recomend a safer method such as coated grain applied in the hole, if you want to use a pesticide.  Always can use a garden hose and shovel to whack them when they are driven out by the water.  Flood irrigation keeps them under control in our growing fields but not in the displays.  Good luck with your problem.  Rhizomes are not fatal to gophers don't know why the appeal to them.   
Mike Sutton
 
----- Original Message -----
From: d*@sbcglobal.net
Sent: Friday, July 20, 2007 10:39 AM
Subject: Re: [iris-photos] GOPHER damage

Vicki,
    You may have already tried this but, there is a commercial grade pesticide made just for this.  It is pellets and is tremendously strong.  We recently had some one sprinkle some in their home here in Lubbock, and the entire family ended up in the emergency room with one fatality from the fumes.  The chemical is phostoxin and you have to be a licensed applicator to use/get it.
 
Dana

 


----- Original Message ----
From: Vicki <jvickic@comcast.net>
To: iris-photos@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Friday, July 20, 2007 12:12:36 PM
Subject: Re: [iris-photos] GOPHER damage

Hi Ann and Ellen,
Ann, We have over a half acre in iris and it is broken up into three different areas on our 1 2/3rd acre. I don't think chicken wire would work. Ellen, I think the gophers are unaffected  to any poison in the rhizomes.  They have destroyed several iris so far this year and nearly wiped out one large section of our garden last year when Jim was so ill.
So hopefully, someone will have another suggestion. Oh, yes we have tried the traps, too.
Vicki


No virus found in this incoming message.
Checked by AVG Free Edition.
Version: 7.5.476 / Virus Database: 269.10.10/908 - Release Date: 7/19/2007 6:10 PM

__._,_.___
Statements made on and attachments (including but not limited to photographs of irises or people) sent to this list are the sole responsibility of the individual participants and are not endorsed by, or attributable to, or under the control of the moderator of this list.
Yahoo! Groups
Change settings via the Web (Yahoo! ID required)
Change settings via email: i*@yahoogroups.com?subject=Email Delivery: Digest | i*@yahoogroups.com?subject=Change Delivery Format: Traditional
Visit Your Group | Yahoo! Groups Terms of Use | i*@yahoogroups.com?subject=
.
Web Bug from http://geo.yahoo.com/serv?s=97359714/grpId=43451/grpspId=1707632694/msgId=39630/stime=1184961625/nc1=3848627/nc2=3848432/nc3=4617365
__,_._,___
Other Mailing lists | Author Index | Date Index | Subject Index | Thread Index