{"id":512,"date":"2015-02-28T21:27:44","date_gmt":"2015-03-01T04:27:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.puravidaaquatic.com\/wordpress\/?p=512"},"modified":"2015-12-14T17:33:04","modified_gmt":"2015-12-15T01:33:04","slug":"pathways-can-help-your-garden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.puravidaaquatic.com\/wordpress\/pathways-can-help-your-garden\/","title":{"rendered":"Gopher composting!"},"content":{"rendered":"

http:\/\/www.vegetariat.com\/2015\/02\/compost-gophers\/<\/a> This is a wonderful blog about discouraging Gophers without toxins. I have gone the same route, but I deliberately let my food scraps ferment for a week or so. I fill a 5 gallon bucket half full of table scraps, put in enough water to just begin to see liquid below the top veggies, and then put a second 5 gallon bucket on top with sometimes a little weight. In a week there is plenty of liquid from the breakdown of the scraps, whereupon I take a paint stirrer that I put some edges on with a grinder and puree it. A little extra water if needed and …<\/p>\n

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\nOld bread works great as in the picture.<\/p>\n

I then pour it through an old milk crate into a tub and from the tub back into the bucket. This screens out large pieces that would plug the hole rather than flow into it.
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\nNow pour it down the holes.
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\nI am exceedingly happy with the results. And as the original blog post points out, I am fertilizing at the same time as discouraging the Gophers from digging in certain areas. I am perfectly happy to let the Gophers have other areas of the property. Just not underneath the trees :-) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

http:\/\/www.vegetariat.com\/2015\/02\/compost-gophers\/ This is a wonderful blog about discouraging Gophers without toxins. I have gone the same route, but I deliberately let my food scraps ferment for a week or so. I fill a 5 gallon bucket half full of table … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

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