Comments on: Gardens and Gophers Oh My!

By: Father Sez » Archive » Looks like our square foot garden project is still not worthy of a success post

Wed, 22 Oct 2008 00:30:42 +0000

[...] the time and money they are spending to grow their own food. See their September report here. And Squawkfox deserves a special mention. She (with some help from her “better half” and her tried and [...]

By: Fox

Fox — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 21:08:05 +0000

@Julie So sorry to see you go. But I totally understand Squawkfox isn’t for everyone.

By: Fox

Fox — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 20:55:36 +0000

@Melissa Your solution is a natural one. No chemicals, no poison. Plus, cats like rodents. It’s a fact. The truth is my dog is more successful at catching the pocket gophers than my trap. I may just try your milk jug and water trick. Ohh, if I happen to be your neighbor…PLEASE don’t deposit them in my ditch.

By: Melissa

Melissa — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 20:39:17 +0000

We feed them to our cats after we catch them. It’s not the most humane action, but what else do you do? Release the buggers only to catch them again tomorrow? I always suppose you could deposit the little bundles of joy in the neighbors ditch…

By: Fox

Fox — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 20:34:48 +0000

@Frugal Wench I seriously have a lot to learn about gardening. Fox urine…wow! LOL

@Marci My “better half” just laughed LOUDLY over “the Tomato Plant that ate Tillamook.” We also would love a tomato plant to rival Tillamook. LOL I will look into Oxheart Orange FOR SURE. So far our best plants are the Early Girls.

@Melissa Your comment seriously just gave me the best visual EVER. You must have as many gophers as we do. My question is…what do you do with the gopher once it’s in your milk jug? I really hate offing the buggers…but their holes are a hazard to the horses and cattle. Thank you so much for your sense of humor as well. I needed a laugh!

By: Melissa

Melissa — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 20:11:51 +0000

You’re going to laugh, but I have found a super easy way to catch gophers. When you see a gopher pop out of a hole, take a milk jug filled with water out to the hole. Dump the water in the hole and then wait a couple minutes. The gopher will run out of its hole and into your milk jug. We have caught hundreds of gophers this way.

By: Julie

Julie — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 18:41:27 +0000

I couldn’t believe that I was reading and seeing photos about how proud you are that you are snapping the necks of gophers. How would you feel if you found Tivo’s neck in a trap? Yikes, I’m taking you off my RSS lady..

By: Four Pillars

Four Pillars — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 02:41:29 +0000

Fox – my cat gets them on the ground. He is lightning fast when he wants to be.

Mike

By: Marci

Marci — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 15:09:03 +0000

Way to go, Tivo

Just wanted to recommend a tomato variety…
an heirloom called Oxheart Orange. Mine is growing into
the Tomato Plant that ate Tillamook HUGE! Sweet orange
tomatoes, says up to a pound apiece, but mine have been more golf ball size. However, they are very very sweet and to have tomatoes this early in Tillamook is no small feat, especially this year!

Surprising me, the broccoli and cauliflower are growing great! I just put 6 quarts into the freezer yesterday, plus eating it and giving it away for the past two weeks!

Enjoy that garden! And get someextra dog biscuits for that mighty hunter

By: Frugal Wench

Frugal Wench — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 07:48:53 +0000

Fox,
You can find Fox or Coyote Urine at garden centers. I found some once at Lowe’s garden center, but they are usually at the local ones.

It is SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO Stinky! You can smell it a hundred feet away! They say deer won’t come near it, but my deer somehow knew a fox was of no consequence to them, and just ignored it.