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How do we get rid of gophers?

May 11, 2013, 12:00 PM

We have many recommendations, including some very interesting suggestions from listeners.

We recommend:

• Gopher Traps

• Gas Cartridges

• Gopher Poisoned Pellets

Ultra Sonic Vibrating Stakes

NoGopher.com (Gopher Gitters)

Gopher Spurge: Euphorbia lathyris

Rodenator

• The Pickle Jar Solution: Fill up a one gallon pickle jar with water (click here to purchase gallon pickle jars), then put a filled pickle jar in the middle of the garden. Then place filled pickle jar in your garden, about every 12 feet. When gophers burrow, the jars vibrate and make the gophers think they are coming to a river bed and they will go somewhere else!

Archives About Gopher Prevention and Elimination:

• Here’s a link to our archive where Nicole asks how to prevent gophers in her garden and Romey talks about the Pickle Jar Solution, June 9, 2012
• The Propane Gopher, May 15, 2010
• Praise for Gopher Gitters, Feb. 28, 2009
• Follow up on Gopher Purge: Euphorbia, Feb. 28, 2009
• The County Boy Pickle Jar Trick, Feb. 21, 2009

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