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Re: pocket gophers

Flooding with water has never worked for me.  Seems they hide out in a
pocket above their tunnel and you have to flood it (the pocket) as well. 
Usually the water runs out another hole first, often in the neighbor's yard
, while the gopher stays put.  Most of he poison bait is grains of wheat
coated with strychnine powder, not a nice nor safe product to use in a
garden.   There are also "gopher gasser" sticks that put out Potassium
Nitrate and some kind of sulfur gas that  works pretty well if all of the
holes are plugged - but first you need to find the holes.  Piping the
engine exhaust from my 8 HP Troybilt will also drive them out of the burrow
and one can commit manual gophercide  using a heavy shovel at the other
exit hole.  Since the dogs caused more damage than the gophers, I finally
fenced the garden with a 16-inch high electric fence to keep the dogs out. 
The fence charger is powered by a 12 volt battery.  This along with the
engine exhaust works for me but new gophers always arrive within a few
weeks.  To get rid of pocket gophers completely, the entire neighborhood
would have to cooperate.

Olin

  

.  ---------
| From: Mike Collison <MGC@output.com>
| To: CaseAds <caseads@aol.com>; veggie-list@eskimo.com
| Subject: Re: pocket gophers
| Date: Monday, April 06, 1998 1:35 AM
| 
| 
| BAD ADVISE
| unless you like craters in your garden.
| I lost 2 tomato plants, one summer squash and
| multiple onions because of my dogs digging for
| furry creatures. I'd prefer the water idea best.
| 
| Mike
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