With their pocket-like cheeks and burrowing capabilities, the gopher is one of the most predominant garden pests found throughout the United States. ... Because gophers feed on roots and vegetables they encounter through digging, potatoes (Solanum tuberosum) make for a good snack as far as a gopher is concerned.

What vegetables will gophers not eat?

Especially carrots, peas, potatoes and parsley, Aster, Campanula, California Poppy, Lavatera, Miscanthus, Phormium, Rose, and Salvia uliginosa.

Will pocket gophers eat potatoes?

The pocket gopher's diet mainly consists of fleshy roots of various plants, including trees. Gophers normally eat tubers such as potatoes and peanuts. They also eat green tops and seeds that can be pulled down into their burrows.