Deer browse
Sign
Aromaragged tears, not a clean rodent clip
Taste
Aromathey still eat young plants
Fence
Aromathey can jump under 8 ft (2.5 m) if they can get a run
Electric
Aromaa low multi-strand fence they try to slip through often trains them to stay back
Scent
Gophers versus moles
Mounds
Aromagopher spoil is fan-shaped with the hole near one edge
Damage
Aromagophers chew or pull roots so plants wilt and lift easily
Pots
Aromacontainers and hydro skip both
In-ground
Aromaline the hole with hardware cloth
Rats
Habit
they gnaw woody stalks to wear down teeth, not because cannabis is a favorite food
Speed
one animal can drop several plants in a night
Site
risk rises near orchards, grain, camps, or unsecured food
Barrier
at least 18 inches (45 cm) high with gaps no larger than 0.5 inch (12.5 mm), or steel wool wrapped on the stalk
Control
traps with an attractant bait; keep food scraps gone and consider cats in the area
Slugs and snails
Sign
holes or clipped edges plus a silvery slime trail, usually after dusk
Friend
cone-shelled decollate snails eat other slugs; leave them if pest snails are also present
Bait
iron phosphate granules (Sluggo and similar) are the book’s first recommendation
Copper
tape, mesh, or wire shocks them; do not trap them inside the ring
Water
irrigate in the morning so the surface dries before night feeding