How can I get rid of gophers in my garden and lawn?

I poured a little Decon down the hole and then covered it up. Voila….no more gopher. He probably wondered why something so delicious made him so sick. If you wonder if I regretted killing the little thing, the answer is NO and now I must replace the lovely new tree he killed by eating it’s roots.

Are you sure they are gophers or are they voles? Our front yard looked like a maze of tunnels with holes surrounded by dirt. We tried everything. Poison, traps, flooding their tunnels, more poison, smoke bombs, and mole scoot- a casteroil mixture that you spray on the lawn-it helped a little, the voles moved to the backyard. Three years ago we applied milky spore to the yard and re-applied it last year. This spring we limed the lawn and I haven’t seen one single tunnel. The Milky Spore continues to grow and expand lasting up to 20 years. Does not harm anything else.

I’ve been killing gophers for years professionally, here’s what to do:
Take a broom stick or something like that and sharpen the end so you can probe the ground easily. A gopher will push up a dirt mound, around the mound probe until you feel the probe hit a void or tunnel, you’ll feel the resistance give way . circle the probe and smooth and widen the hole down to the tunnel. Pour in the labeled amount of strychnine coated grain, (available at most home & garden stores) cover the hole with a piece of paper with dirt on top to keep it in place.Dont let any dirt fall down the hole on top of the grain. Try to bait every mound, you wont be able to find a good tunnel at every mound.Thats it, if you do this, you will control the gophers.

Do not leave any of the grain on the ground where pets or birds can find it. Wear rubber gloves when handling the bait.