The garden has been coming along nicely. Since I am still waiting for something to harvest, I found other tasks to perform. The past couple days I worked on getting the paths around and between the beds cleared of sprouting weeds and leveling them off.
This morning after making an inspection of how things were growing, I headed down the hill to the shed. Not more than ten or fifteen minutes later, on my return, I noticed a new gopher mound on the side of the hill next to the garden. As I came up further, I discovered that the critter had not stopped there. He had dug under the garden bed and created a huge mound on the other side.
>Obviously the gopher was not impressed by my hard work smoothing the path. And the little beast was smart enough to backfill his tunnels far enough so I could not find the runway for setting a trap. Of course, he is probably pretty miffed we put the hardware cloth between his domain and the tender veggies growing above. I cleaned up the mess and the path is level again. Odds are this is only the first assault on the garden from below.