Dealing With Pocket Gophers

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 9 June 2022

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Botta’s pocket gophers (Thomomys bottae) are native to California! Their tunnels aerate and the vegetation and poop they leave behind underground enriches the soil. Connect With Natalie Renee: Natalie is the Epic Executive Assistant here at Epic Gardening. She is a life-long gardener and urban homesteader. We toured Natalie’s yard back in May, take a peep at where she grows about 30% the food she eats: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vcclrd_EczI Instagram Linkedin Shop the Store As an exclusive for listeners, use code EPICPODCAST for 5% off your entire first order on our store, featuring our flagship Birdies Raised Beds. These are the original metal raised beds, lasting up to 5-10x longer than wooden beds, are ethically made in Australia, and have a customizable modular design. Shop now and get 5% off your first order. Get Our Books Looking for a beginner's guide to growing food in small spaces? Kevin’s book, Field Guide to Urban Gardening, explains the core, essential information that you'll need to grow plants, no matter where you live! He also wrote Grow Bag Gardening to provide you with specialized knowledge that can bring you success when growing in fabric pots. Order signed copies of Kevin’s books, plus more of his favorite titles in our store. More Resources Looking for more information? Follow us: Our Blog YouTube (Including our Epic Homesteading and Jacques in the Garden channels) Instagram (Including Epic Homesteading, Jacques, and Chris) TikTok Facebook Facebook Group Discord Server Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	When I first moved into the epicose dead, there was nothing really but dirt and weeds
0:18.0	in the backyard, and specifically some pretty tall dead weeds.
0:21.8	And I had a friend over once, and what ended up happening, it kind of freaked me out, is
0:26.1	one of the weeds just started wiggling, but more than the wind would suggest it was possible
0:30.9	to wiggle, and then it disappeared.
0:33.4	And it freaked me out, because I didn't know that I had gophers in on the property,
0:38.0	and I actually have barely ever seen them since, so I know that they're there to some
0:41.9	capacity.
0:42.9	They mean it just not frequent my yard much, I'm not really sure.
0:46.1	Nevertheless, they are there, the pocket gophers, Natalie, it sounds like you've dealt with
0:50.2	this quite a bit.
0:51.2	Yeah, I have one pocket gopher at my house, one thing I recently learned is pocket gophers
0:56.0	are solo creatures, so you usually only have one in your little yard space.
1:01.6	They have like little territories, and they're extremely territorial, but the pocket gopher
1:07.2	is native to this area, and to California it runs east or runs north.
1:11.2	The one that we have here is called bodas pocket gophers, and it's called a pocket gopher
1:14.7	because they store things in their cheeks like little pockets.
1:17.2	Oh, that's really looks so fat.
1:18.6	Yeah.
1:19.6	They're little cheeks.
1:20.6	They're so cute.
1:22.5	And I originally when I moved into my rental property, it was just dirt, lot kind of similar
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