Gopher Baskets

A gopher basket is a cage of galvanized wire you plant with the plant. Roots grow out through the openings; gophers can't chew in. One install protects the plant for years, with no bait, no traps and no maintenance.

Ready-made baskets come in 1, 5 and 15 gallon to match nursery pot sizes — pick a basket one size up from the root ball. Need something else? We build custom baskets to any dimension in our Hayward shop.

Building your own? Use galvanized hardware cloth. 1/2" and 3/4" openings let feeder roots pass freely while stopping gophers; 1/4" also excludes voles, at the cost of a little root restriction. Heavier wire lasts longer underground — 19 to 21 gauge is the practical range for buried baskets.

New to this? Start with how to keep gophers out of your garden, or read why the basket goes in on planting day.

Cut to size and shipped from Hayward, California. Family-owned since 1938.

Browse hardware cloth by mesh size for DIY baskets, or the wider range of galvanized wire mesh.