Dr. Heather Vallier

Dr. Heather Vallier
AKA: The Goo Girl = )

Friday, March 9, 2012

A new tool in the tool box to safely and organically exclude gophers and protect your plants

Gophers are out again in force and we are on it with Gopher goo.  We just drove one out of our own yard and into the waiting paws of our gopher kitty, Thaddius.  We mixed up the Gopher Goo with water ( 1pt goo to 5pts water) stirred and let it gel for about 5 minutes.  Then we added about 2 cups to the burrow and washed in down to plug the gophers exit holes (the holes he creates to waste our water and prevent us from drowning him in the hole). Then add more slurry form of Gopher goo to fill up his hole to the top and get it down deeply to get every nook and cranny of his home.  If he doesn't come out, he can just stay in there and become soil.  Either way the burrow is "out of commission".  The gopher won't dig it out because Gopher Goo is the consistancy of applesauce and he can't move it without getting sticky (which is very bad for a gopher, everything will now stick to his fur).  If the Gopher does survive to re-dig another burrow, it will be much smaller and easier to find and fill.  Keep and eye out for those tell tale mounds and get right on it . . . and then go sit on the porch and smile, your work is done with no traps to check or set, no poisons to worry about, no sound makers to find or replace.  You are done and your plants are safe.  Got a Gopher?  Gopher Goo!