![]() ![]() Filling tunnels with water: nothing ever happened, it might be because my soil is so sandy and well drainingģ. Collapsing tunnels: gophers are digging machines, they don’t mind at all, they dig new ones immediatelyĢ. If only she did that consistently.Ĭats and other methods of gopher control that I’ve used have been less than satisfactory compared to traps in general, let alone the Cinch in particular. She presented the head on our front porch that evening. ![]() It so happens that I didn’t end up catching a gopher with this particular Cinch trap setting because my cat caught it first. Those arms on either side are spring-loaded and will pinch tight to instantly kill the gopher when its nose pushes the center piece to release the spring action. Here’s what the gopher might see from its angle inside the tunnel: I poked my hori-hori knife into the mound and located the attached gopher tunnel, and then I cleared the dirt out of the tunnel.Īfter setting the Cinch trap, I slid it into the tunnel. Here’s how I recently set a Cinch trap after I noticed this gopher mound in my strawberry patch. I’ve found trapping to be the best general method, and about a year ago I discovered the Cinch trap in particular and haven’t used any other method or trap since. I’ve tried almost every method I’ve heard of to control gophers over the years. Most recently, I trapped and killed one with a Cinch trap. The cruelest attack by gophers has been to the Sharwil avocado tree that I planted over my son Miles’s placenta when he was born. I’ve now killed three gophers attacking that special tree over the past couple years. While I haven’t lost any plum trees to gophers, I’ve lost other fruit trees and innumerable vegetables. Birds peck plums and squirrels may steal plums, but a gopher will kill a plum tree. In my yard, the most damaging, relentless, and challenging pest to control has been gophers. ![]()
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