On 30/11/2018 23:35, rhocks wrote:
I found out that gophers/moles will pull carrots from below the soil,

Gophers might. Moles are carnivores, and won't touch carrots.

Gophers are also somewhat rare in the UK, and this is UK.rec.gardening...

Mind, that hasn't stopped Disney adding them to Winnie the Poo!

Andy