Ready to take your yard back from these furry critters?
Here are four of the most tried and true methods to get rid of gophers.
Do You Have Gophers or Moles?
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Gophers typically leave behind mounds that are shaped like a half-moon, and these mounds are spaced closely together.
The mounds are rarely more than a six-foot radius from each other.
Molescreate volcano-shaped mounds that are not necessarily in close proximity.
A mole is smaller, darker, and has a long pink snout.
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Whether you have a cat or a dog, both are predators to gophers.
Fight Them With Smell
Gophers have poor eyesight, but they have an acute sense of smell.
Bury a wire mesh screen in the trench to prevent gophers from burrowing into your garden.
First, cover all but one of the entrances-exits that gophers have created in your yard.
Then, in the remaining exit, place the gopher trap.
Check back in a few days to see if you’ve caught a gopher.
If you have and it is still alive, call animal control for next steps.
it’s possible for you to add color and fragrance to your garden with plants that also repel gophers.
Try marigolds, daffodils, lavender, rosemary, peppermint, sage, or plants fromthe allium family.
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Lastly, you could take a garden hose to any new mounds that pop up.
Professional exterminators will come out annually to see to it they’re keeping gophers away year-after-year.
They typically either use traps to contain and remove the gophers or use carbon monoxide injected into gopher holes.
