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40. You know, I haven't seen one up here in 8 years.

And they dig holes like the land was swiss cheese. Go figure.

You’re not supposed to poison them because that poisons any raptors who grab one.

Up here, you can blast away, and neighbors do all the time. That doesn’t make me feel good, but I am on a ridge and they keep their shots low. You are welcome to visit and blast away, less the lead, of course. More poison.

Various traps are supposed to work. If and when I return to the suburbs, I’ll check for any as part of the home inspection, and I suspect that like my previous home, I’ll have roses in tubs. They seemed to thrive, as I kept them pruned. Just have to be very good at watering. Wire root cages are recommended, but if you can get a gopher snake or King snake ….

Given all the threats here, if I were to grow anything, it would be in a greenhouse of sorts. Walls with fences, or wire or panels to keep the deer and rabbits out and a solid floor to keep the gophers/whatever out. Cover would have to be removable, or mesh for summer (we got ravens ) and who knows what to do about squirrels, but that’s all too much work. I’ll revisit this all when I move.

Containers are OK. I got the tools to build them, since the price went up many years ago.

I tried everything in my first home with the gophers. People say that those underground traps work, but at the last house, they weren’t really tunneling, where you could set traps in a run. I had good experience with container gardening (roses and tomatoes, mostly)

Neighbor has daffodils, which are supposed to have a powerful alkaloid toxin in the bulbs. Gophers ate them anyway.

Good luck.