Getting rid of gophers from your lawn, garden, or field can be a frustrating process, but it doesn’t have to be. If only you could find someone who has already tried all the different methods and then explained to you what the most effective removal methods are.

I have lived with the frustration of gophers in my garden and it wasn’t until I found someone who had done all the research for me that I found a solution that worked for me. In a nutshell, you need to educate yourself about these creatures, what their habits and behaviors are, find out what kills them for good, and what thousands of other people have used and been successful with.

Did you know that when a gopher burrows into your lawn, it’s not only damaging the beautiful landscaping… it’s also uprooting, exposing rocks that can damage lawn equipment, providing fresh tilled soil for weeds to take root, and damaging the vegetation that surrounds it? It remains under the mounds of earth that they take out of their tunnels.

You can try one of many products or methods to get rid of gophers, such as trapping, flooding, gassing, poisoning, or spraying, but each has its own drawbacks. Trapping is not for the faint-hearted (like me!) and can take a bit of practice to get right. Gophers are very adept at closing off tunnels when you try to fill them with gas or flood them, and the poison can often be harmful to other animals if the gopher surfaces to die.