Gophers can be a serious threat in home gardens. They have a nasty reputation for pulling entire plants down from their roots and eating them. Even if your plants haven't been pulled underground, you ...

Ray Festa, UCCE Master Gardener, demonstrates how to place a trapline gopher trap in a gopher hole. Joe Johnston [email protected] Have you ever discovered dirt mounds in the middle of your ...

As an independent businessman, Steve Salas has but one goal: to build a better gopher trap. That means more of the old-fashioned kind. Although there are now electronic gopher traps on the market, ...

Question: Gophers are wrecking my garden. What can I do to stop them? A: Take heart. We have some tips for managing them. Five species of pocket gophers are found in California, with Botta’s pocket ...

Q: I have a resident gopher in my lawn. We’re on speaking terms, but unfortunately I can’t write what I have been saying to it. I asked my neighbor for advice and he advised me to stand patiently over ...

MANKATO, Minn. -- Elaine Poulson is accustomed to counting gopher tails. They're delivered in plastic bags or cheap bins, and Poulson counts each one. In Lafayette Township of Minnesota's Nicollet ...

They may be cute in children’s books, but gophers are among the most exasperating garden pests. Unless you’re willing to wave a white flag, it’s critical to stop an invasion before it gets out of hand ...

Q: Help. Gophers have moved into my back yard and are destroying my entire landscape! They have eaten the roots right off my fig tree and several shrubs so that they toppled over. I have tried ...

Something is digging in my yard because I have these mounds of dirt showing up everywhere. Do I have moles? — J.D. You definitely have something working underground, but it’s not moles; it’s likely ...

DEAR JOAN: For the first time, gophers are destroying our vegetable garden. A trapper killed five gophers but has been unable to get one – or more – continuing the destruction. He can’t find tunnels ...