Well I have no problems with rabbits or gophers...my garden is actually surrounded by horrible dirt high up on a plateu(like baseball dirt, very hard) and Ive just dug holes and filled with good soil...so there arent any gophers around at all, niether are rabbits...but there are squirells everywhere! but ive never seen one squirrel even come close to my plants...maybe im lucky lol anyways all I have problems with are bugs like grasshoppers,whiteflies etc...I use neem oil to combat bugs...but anyways all the advice I have to give if your having problems with rodents is to simply get some chicken fence around your whole garden or around each plant...