I'm going to say No. I get rid of all my gophers with poison and traps. Been eating tomatoes where they were earlier in the Spring. I'm not dead and I'm not growing a 2nd head.

And I do consider myself an ORGANIC gardener for the most part.

Look at it this way -- if you don't take care of the gophers, you may not have any pumpkins anyhow.

Kevin

Great advice, Kevin.

Thanks a million!

- Tiffany.

I do not know the answer to your question. My gut tells me it should be OK if you don't over-water. But I never use poison on gophers because my dog eats the gophers occasionally.

I use traps or plant in gopher-proof raised beds.

You have my sympathy. It is very hard to defend pumpkins against gophers. Sometimes they pop up under cover of the foliage and eat a little bit of the vine. Then everything downstream from that area dies! You can protect the pumpkins themselves by putting a little piece of scrap wood under each pumpkin.

Best of luck whatever you do!

--McKenzie