For the last three years, I have been battling gophers in my garden. They have pulled artichoke plants down their hole and last summer took out my peppers and eggplants. A young fig tree had only a ...

Question: Gophers are wrecking my garden. What can I do to stop them? A: Take heart. We have some tips for managing them. Five species of pocket gophers are found in California, with Botta’s pocket ...

There's no feeling quite so disappointing as spending time and effort carefully planting bulbs only to find they never come up because gophers, squirrels, and other rodents have got to them. Well, I'm ...

Q: I have had problems with gophers eating all my plants. We live next to a wild area, so there’s no easy way to exclude them. What should I plant that is drought-tolerant and won’t be eaten? I am ...

The UC Master Gardeners of Butte County are part of the University of California Cooperative Extension system, serving our ...