Tyler East Texas Gopher Control
A common site in the lawns of East Texas, is the horse shoe shaped mound of soil, the tell tale sign of our most prodigious lawn miner. The gopher! You can find information on putting him out of business yourself, or having someone do it for you on the pages of this site.
This page includes links to a several pages of gopher control information. This site is a response to questions people raise when reading some of our information websites, and our service business website. By giving this information its own website and URL, we can easily direct people who have questions about controlling gophers here, without having to repeat the information in several locations.
Pocket gophers have an important function in the natural world as plows and aerifiers of the plains areas.
They create annoying, unsightly mounds. They cause trip hazards for your children, especially the athletic ones. They can even cause erosion problems, which can result in damage to your home and property.
There are very few options when it comes to preventing gophers from attacking a lawn, with exclusion being the most practical, but also, very difficult.
There are tales of chewing gum, castor oil repellents, (or poisons,) and other home remedies, that may, or may not, have some validity, some of which are confused with methods used to rid the lawn of moles, which is another story entirely.
The best way to deal with pocket gophers, is to trap them. This provides solid proof that at least one of the lawn terrorists has met his match.
The least expensive, and least hazardous route is by using gopher traps created for the job. Let me warn you from the outset, that this is not a job for the squeamish!
A list of the things you need for trapping gophers.
The waiting is the hardest part! If you have a lot of territory to cover, buy several pairs of traps, and set them all, maybe you will trap one in the first one by the time you set the last one.
If you want to see the evidence, please let us know beforehand, so we can save it for you. You will also need to let us know where you want to store your “bag of gophers or moles,” as they do not travel or store well!
Our pricing is done “per head”. We also offer a “per thousand square foot” pricing option for both trapping and grain treatments for areas larger than 20 thousand square feet.
What are you going to do with all those gophers you trap? Well, in these tough economic times, we shouldn’t let anything go to waste, so we decided to include a section on the best recipes for gopher grub!
Make your gopher grease cornbread using any standard cornbread recipe, just don’t use one of those recipes that calls for adding sugar. That’s just gross!
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