Contractor's mesh I think it's called. 1/4th inch holes and made of steel. Sturdy stuff.

Sorry they disturbed your beds. That sucks. My moles are confined to my front yard for the moment. My beds may not be protected with landscape fabric and 3 inches of gravel.

Good luck and don't give up. Coons have raided my bed just as bad. Let it be a lesson.

Ask for "hardware cloth" it's a wire mesh as described above. Comes in different size openings, I think half-inch will work.

Nylon might get chewed by the varmit. From your description it sounds like a gopher.

Thank you very much, you two. This is exactly what i needed to know. I'll look for hardware cloth/contractors mesh in my local hardware stores next Spring.

At our home depot in the same area as the chicken wire they have other materials with different sized openings. Some of our beds are not lined at the moment because dh insisted that the gopher did not come to the area where the beds are. Well, they do because last year they came up into the pumpkins and eggplants. The chicken wire should be fine though. All of our trees are planted in cages made out of chicken wire. We can see where the gophers have run into the chicken wire and have needed to redirect themselves (this was only after losing 2 Austrian Pines, 2 apple and 2 cherry trees). Now we also make it a point to poison the little varmints.

estreya,

Hardware cloth on the bottom, poultry wire on top. Take no prisoners!

Fast forward to 45 seconds in - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRjXAZqXvXA&fmt=18

Here is a link that might be useful: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRjXAZqXvXA&fmt=18

A shotgun or slingshot is very effective as well!

a bbgun will work wonders!! ;'> my son has killed 3 rabbits so far ;')

try this: