The Gopher Highway has expanded in the garden. We dug up several connecting tunnels yesterday, 4 alone in the lettuce bed and 2 each in the strawberry and zucchini. Our first sign of gopher activities in the garden was about a month ago with the usual mound of dirt. After lots of research on the internet for ways to get rid of the pest (which ran the gammet of chewing gum to traps), I was ready to give in. If it weren't for my neighbor, I would have just call it quits for the season. She suggested that we dig through the pile of dirt and find the tunnels. Once the tunnels are unearthed, fill them with horse manure which would deter the gophers from coming back (gophers don't like the scent of any other animals/human). Well that's what we did....hopefully this works. Stay tuned....
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