Gophers!

VIJAY CHANDHOK via pbs pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net
Fri, 07 May 2021 06:21:36 PDT
Use a smoke bomb in their tunnel to get rid of them, works great 

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> On May 6, 2021, at 9:18 PM, Geri Cooper via pbs <pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> wrote:
> 
> What an image!  I might need to get a Malamute.
> 
>> On May 6, 2021, at 11:49 AM, Jane McGary via pbs <pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> wrote:
>> 
>> Gophers have a particular taste for Lilium (true lilies) too. One destroyed a whole planting of Oriental lilies at my former garden. Then one of my Malamutes pounced over the tunnel, caught the gopher, and ate it, while I stood by saying "Good dog!"
>> 
>> jane McGary, Portland, Oregon, USA
>> 
>>> On 5/5/2021 6:39 PM, Robert Parks via pbs wrote:
>>> Apparently the local gophers like tangy things. They just ate (the bulbs
>>> under) half a dozen big clumps of Oxalis purpurea, as well as all the
>>> Oxalis obtusa that I didn't have in pots set in the ground. They also
>>> browsed the tops of a California poppy (and at least some of the roots).
>>> 
>>> At least they haven't cultivated a taste for geophyte aroids.
>>> 
>>> Anyway, feeding stations set up in tunnels with a banquet of the three
>>> flavors of gopher treats I have.
>>> 
>>> Argh.
>>> 
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