Should I plant a garden specifically to feed my growing gopher population?

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Gophers have totally taken over my backyard.

I wanted a salsa garden this year and fear it will be totally torn apart by these little jerks.

The community garden coordinator told me I could have a garden bed there.

It’s about a minute long walk from my front door so there’s really no excuses.

I could plant things I want to eat there and they’d be safe.

However, I’m in love with these gophers now.

My dogs and I watched from the patio, while gophers actually came out of their holes, in daylight, to pick weeds and take them into their tunnels.

Brave.

Very brave.

So if I plant anything, in my garden beds in the backyard, they’ll surely eat it.

My question is,

Would that be fun or an expensive mess?

I wanted to get a camera and video the gophers,

But on account of my illness we have a strict no surveillance cameras, period.

We’ll see.

What do you think?

Anyone had a gopher problem before?

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Slingshot. Get the clay ammo that is environmentally safe.

Destructive little @#$%s.

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I don’t want to kill them.

I just don’t want them tearing up my yard.

Plus I worry about them biting one of the dogs.

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They’ll create tunnels that can collapse and you break your ankle. Or a guest will.

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Don’t worry, plenty left if you snuff a few. Just leave the bodies out and you’ll make a crow or three happy. I have had to help put down cattle after they broke a leg in a gopher hole. I don’t feel bad about varmint removal.

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My art teacher had a beaver problem :beaver:

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They will ruin your yard. :shrimp::shrimp::shrimp:

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tis a good deed. im sure the gophers will bless us with an early spring next year

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damn youre a savage lol

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id just leave them… maybe you can build a little fence or use chicken fence to stop them? just animals out here trying to survive.

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They do a lot of damage and pest control is needed. The local school board discovered that trying to keep the animal lovers happy got too expensive after kids were breaking ankles in gopher holes on the playground and they came out on the losing end of multiple expensive lawsuits. Suckers were making holes faster than maintenance could fill them.

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Don’t those things build tunnels under your house and thereby destroy your property? Or is that a different animal? I had one once and it did a lot of damage in a very short time. Had to kill it.

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I’m unsure if you should plant a garden but I think it would be ok to just let them be. though throwing out some bird seed can cause some plants to grow and might make the gophers happy with an added bonus of attracting birds

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