stewart
March 1, 2007, 09:22 AM
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"When a large field was made into a shopping mall behind our house we had a terrible time with gophers moving into our yard. Got rid of them for good by planting a couple "Gopher Plants" (Euphorbia lathyris - Caper Spurge). Supposedly the roots and the seeds are poisonous/noxious to gophers. Didn't appear to have dead gophers in our yard - just disappeared gophers! These plants are annuals but always self-seed so that even twenty years later some gopher plants always pop up here and there. We save the seeds and give them away to relatives and friends who have gopher problems and they always quickly grow, driving away the gophers every time. The plant grows to a height of around 4 feet but only 1 foot diameter (like a tower) and will self-seed by falling over as it dries out in Fall. Our yard is super hard clay with minimal watering done through the hot dry summers as we have no sprinkler system. Believe me, anyone can grow this plant. I would absolutely recommend this plant to anyone with gophers."
"When a large field was made into a shopping mall behind our house we had a terrible time with gophers moving into our yard. Got rid of them for good by planting a couple "Gopher Plants" (Euphorbia lathyris - Caper Spurge). Supposedly the roots and the seeds are poisonous/noxious to gophers. Didn't appear to have dead gophers in our yard - just disappeared gophers! These plants are annuals but always self-seed so that even twenty years later some gopher plants always pop up here and there. We save the seeds and give them away to relatives and friends who have gopher problems and they always quickly grow, driving away the gophers every time. The plant grows to a height of around 4 feet but only 1 foot diameter (like a tower) and will self-seed by falling over as it dries out in Fall. Our yard is super hard clay with minimal watering done through the hot dry summers as we have no sprinkler system. Believe me, anyone can grow this plant. I would absolutely recommend this plant to anyone with gophers."
