I just found out yesterday that we have a gopher in our raised garden where I planted my saffron! I have to leave it there or it won't bloom. I'd be tempted to get it out (it's still dormant) but some smart person planted garden-variety spring crocus right on top of it this spring! I thought, no big deal, mine will come up in the fall but now there's this bulb-eating gopher! Someone is going to come out Wednesday and hopefully kill it, but that's days away!

If I were either a good Christian, or a good gardener I would go get ALL the corms - regardless which they were - and replant them after the gophercism. Mine would still come up in September but they mightn't flower. At least they'd still be there.

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Meg
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Oh Meg you think that is a problem? Alberta is overrun with gophers. Those little guys are all over my lawn - laughing at me; mocking me; even imitating the silly way I walk to the church. Grrr!

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Rev. Daniel Kok
Pastor of Grace Reformed Church (URCNA)
Leduc, Alberta CANADA
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Have you considered using chicken wire? I'm not quite sure how deep you have to go, but I think the height of it needs to be a foot above ground.

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Bob Lynam
Pilgrim Presbyterian Church (OPC)
Raleigh, NC

It's too late for chicken-wire this summer, but maybe next year...

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Meg
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I heard Juicy Fruit works but I haven't tried it yet. Supposedly it 'gums' up their insides.

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Rev. Daniel Kok
Pastor of Grace Reformed Church (URCNA)
Leduc, Alberta CANADA
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Belgic Confession, Article 26

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Try putting some Bazooka bubble gum in the tunnel. Yes, they still make it. And no, you don't want regular ole chew gum.

I think you will find the problem gets solved real quick.

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Bob Lynam
Pilgrim Presbyterian Church (OPC)
Raleigh, NC

Oh Minister of Silly Walks, do your gophers look like this?



If so, you should try this:



and stop walking to church like this:

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member, First Congregational Church, (CCCC) Cresco, IA
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Todd:

Yes.

Okay.

Okay.

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Rev. Daniel Kok
Pastor of Grace Reformed Church (URCNA)
Leduc, Alberta CANADA
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Belgic Confession, Article 26

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Bazooka bubble gum, hmmm?

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Castor beans.

That's what my wife's granfather used on their farm in Oklahoma. He grew them himself, then used them with extreme prejudice.

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Far East
Deacon, Int'l Church

These are like the ones I use. Just make sure you tie a string to the trap and stake it into the ground. Sometimes them gophers try to crawl away as they die.

Shop at Victorpest.com

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Josh Taylor
Verde Valley Reformed Chapel, OPC
Cottonwood, AZ

shot 10 last night! Shot 50 a few weeks ago. Great fun!

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Lacombe Free Reformed Church
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Okay, I called in to a radio show called the Garden Doctor this morning and he says don't remove the corms but wait to find out exactly what kind of critter it is. If it's a mole, there's no point distrubing the corms as moles don't eat bulbs. Good news, I hope!

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The traps in my link work for moles as well.

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Josh Taylor
Verde Valley Reformed Chapel, OPC
Cottonwood, AZ

Just planted some poison........I Know it's bad but I hate those little critters!

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Dave Gray
Harbor Presbyterian Church
San Diego, CA
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Did he say "kill the golllllfers" or "gophers"?

We used those in ground sonic things and they worked... get them at Home Depot...

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Pastor Steve Bradley
Trinity Reformed Presbyterian Church (RPCNA)
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Riva, MD

I use to when I was in High School we used groundhogs as targets to sight-in our 30-06's for Deer season.

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Benjamin P. Glaser
Pittsburgh, PA
Fairmount ARP Church, Sewickley, PA
Candidate Under Care Pittsburgh Theological Seminary & Reformed Presbyterian Theological Seminary

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You do that before deer season? How are you gonna know when spring comes without them groundhogs? Good gried, Benjamin...

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When I was growing up on the farm ground hogs use to eat a lot of our soybeans. They liked to dig their hole in the railroad that was about a half mile back of our farm. My dad gave me a .22 rifle and told me to "git 'em!" I'd find a spot where I wasn't visual (upwind, of course) and wait for the rascals to come out.

Ah, the good ol' days!

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