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Gopher Goodnight
This thing works. I have been fighting underground varmints all summer with the little gopher flares and getting nowhere. They were sucking that stuff up like bong hits then moving on to new holes. About 500 square feet of my big beautiful lawn was a mess. Holes everywhere. You could walk on the lawn and feel the tunnels.
So I ordered this thing and when it showed up(on time) I swiped a 25 foot hose out of my wife's greenhouse, backed my old dodge 4X4 that barely passed its smog test last spring through the yard gate and went to work. There were two distinct types of holes in the lawn. Little ones where the dirt mound was about 6 inches in diameter and big ones where the mounds were about a foot in diameter. I hooked everything up, cleared a big hole by moving away the dirt pile and feeling around with my fingers untill they slid into the hole. After clearing it nicely I put about 6 inches of hose down it and sealed around the hose with dirt. I fired up the Dodge and stomped down all the other big holes. I fed them smog for an hour. I repeated this process on the small holes.
The next morning I took off for a week long work trip fully expecting my wife to tell me there were new holes in the lawn when we talked because nothing else had worked. Now its three weeks and my lawn is starting to recover. and there is zero signs of underground varmint activity. I almost feel bad about sending these little creatures into that long good night but I think I will get over it. Hopefully in the spring if some new rodent family decides to move in they will find all those critters taking their forever dirt nap and move on. If not...I know what to do. Kill them. Kill them all.
Update 06/11/2017 Ok now I'm piXXed...
While I was sleeping or otherwise occupied these little bastages have snuck back into the yard and built a super highway underneath the landscape cloth in my rock border right nest to the curb. This tunnel appears to be several 100 feet long with many entry points under the curb to the lawn. I am filling it with smog now but am afraid i might have to get a couple more of these things and run them simultaneously. I will keep posting as I battle the little SOBs. These is for keeps now.
August 2016 · Patio Lawn and Garden · verified purchase