California Gardening: Plant Dormancy in So California, 0 by Gourd

Gourd wrote:
Now they are popping up all over the place with these rains. Just last week my husband built another raised bed and I told him not to bother putting metal mesh on the bottom of the bed because I had not seen any gophers on that side of the house in years. Well, yup, no sooner had he finished the bed, the next week, gopher holes on that side of the house.

They are now popping up in the cactus garden between several feet of concrete slabs.

These are the raised beds. The front two are lined on the bottom with metal mesh. But that last one is one that I don't know when they will show up.

We did make chicken wire baskets and placed them in the holes when we planted out back (criniums) and they have not been bothered in 5 years, so yes it works. But with thousands of plants it's hard to make baskets for each one.