In my part of California we have pocket gophers and Bambi. Bambi gets an electric fence and every tomato plant gets planted in a gopher basket of galvanized chicken wire or hardware cloth. I have it down to a science where planting is (fairly) easy, getting ready for the next year, not so much, 'cuz I have to dig the gopher baskets up. The whole thing about the warm blood pests is designing something that guarantees exclusion and using it every year. With the drought here and my baskets the gophers are starving to death and the deer are moving to greener pastures. Good.
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I started out with nothing and I've still got most of it left.
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