what's the best way to get rid of gophers?

Answer 1

castor beans or,take them golfing.

Answer 2

I love some of the answers!!! Wow, what creativity!!! So, I went and checked all over the net - what fun is answering all of this stuff if you aren't learning something?

What I found is that "there is no fool-proof method". Gee, what a surprise....

I've tried lots of things myself, including:
* garden hose flooding... but that doesn't work cuz' the little buggers build their habitats in the top of a tunnel (which then becomes an air bubble in the flood).
* traps... I ended up tripping over them and never did catch anything.
* fog bomb... it doesn't go DOWN the hole so all it did was irritate the neighbors.
* dig to China... yep, tried that one, too. Almost got to China, too. I had an 8' deep pit in my yard, lost where the tunnel went and gave up.
* pitchfork watch... watch out, they are really fast when they hit the surface.
* a friend of mine who's a welder trickled a heavy gas called acetylene down the hole, covered it, put away his tank, and came back and lit the gas. his lawn jumped about 4' in the air but he hasn't had gophers since... come to think of it, he hasn't had water or sewer or irrigation since then either....

Nope, I've given up all of that and decided that Uncle Sam is right.... BUNKER BUSTERS... a 2000 lb bomb meant to penetrate even the worst al Quida concrete bunkers underground.

Call your local Air Force Base and volunteer your gopher's domain as a Bunker Buster practice site. Then go to your Mother-in-Law's for Christmas.

Lemme know how it goes.....

Answer 3

I have trouble with Gophers as well, a good friend of mind just gave me copies of some pages from " Jerry's Timely Tonics" Here you go, 1 Cp Ammonia, 1/2 Cp liquid dish soap, 1/2 cup urine (sorry that's what the ingredients are) and 1/4 Cp castor oil. Mix all together and with Hose-sprayer thoroughly saturate all of the animal runs and burrows you can find. Hope this works for both of us, good luck.

Answer 4

well you can go the caddy shack method of plastic explosives, BUT your yard will never be the same, I have always had the best luck with the traps. I dig down into one of the mounds and find the tunnel, drive a stake into the ground, place the trap in the tunnel and tie the trap off to the stake Wait a day or so and check it. Bury the gopher in the hole once your done.

Answer 5

we have anywhere from 5-12 cats and kittens in our farmyard every spring and summer and never does a gopher last more than a minute or two if hes foolish enough to venture in. theres nary a gopher hole in sight for quite a distance around the perimeter of our yard. short of using toxic poison, there is really no way to rid yourself of these pests other than cats--ive heard that gophers are also terrified of ferrets and weasels and certain kinds of terriers.

Answer 6

Actually the best and safest method is to use a garden hose and place it in the hole and turn it on. It will flood the gopher out

Answer 7

If you are talking about the gopher tortoise, please don't kill it! (they are endangered) As for the rodent kind of gopher, I really don't know.

Answer 8

You can use gum so their teeth will get stuck or you can drown them by putting a water hose in the hole.

Answer 9

I have heard that moth balls placed in their tunnels will get rid of them.

Answer 10

Put used chewing gun in the whole. It binds tghem up and die.

Answer 11

traps, and a sharp pitchfork....my nieghbor is obsessed with the lil buggers, so my yard stays pretty gopher free :)) Thanks Karl!