As some of you may recall, the garden up at the barn is an annual struggle. First of all, there's the clay soil, from which I made this pot:

And then there are the rodents gophers, whose hunger knows no bounds:

When I fenced the garden a few years back, dug the chicken wire a few feet deep to keep tunneling invaders at bay, it looked like this:

And produced stuff like this:

The next year, I skipped the fence and the garden turned out like this:

So this year, a friend built a fence and installed an underground barrier that's two feet deep.

Maybe this will give peas a chance.