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Help! Rodents living in raised bed garden #791861
Asked May 20, 2022, 5:22 PM EDT
Carver County Minnesota
Expert Response
Thanks for your question.
There is no “safe” way of removing these critters if you mean by this preserving their safety. They have found, presumably, a good home and will continue to come back to it. In looking at your pictures I don’t believe that moles are the culprits. More likely gophers. You could try to trap them and transport them to another location. However this simply means (“Nature abhors a vacuum”) that other gophers will just move in. Are they really causing a significant amount of damage at this time to your garden or is this more a cosmetic issue? You’ll need to decide what your priorities are. You could hire an exterminator who will either trap them or put out some poison. Take a look at the following as they might give you some other ideas:
https://www.havahart.com/gopher-facts
https://www.pestnet.com/rodents/pocket-gopher/
https://www.wikihow.com/Get-Rid-of-Gophers
Good Luck!!