Topic: What's eating my peas?

[sticks]

Any ideas what's doing this damage to my peas?


I'm unsure whether to put up chicken wire to deter birds/mice/rats/etc or lay down some slug defences or both.

[saddad]

From that angle looks like toern leaves... which would be pigeons...  :-\

[sticks]

Yes, the leaves do look torn. We do seem to have a lot of pigeos around...I think I need to cover my whole plot in a giant net!

[sticks]

If I net them over now will the peas continue to grow or should I re-sow?

[Stevens706]

If you net them now they will regrow and be OK, even if the main tip has been eaten they should sprout again from lower down

[Robert_Brenchley]

Pigeons; mine looked the same this time last year. I netted them and they soon recovered.

[JENIAN]

Buy an airgun and do your neighbours a favour as well. ;)

[George the Pigman]

Yes I would guess pigeons or birds of some kind. However on our plot they seem to just eat the tendrils not the leaves or pods. They only started to attack peas a few years ago so it's probably learned behaviour. I cover my peas now.
I agree about needing the whole plot covered with green netting. Ours looks like a camp site with all the netting! Perhaps we should have guard posts to stop the vandals as well! It would end up looking like Stalag XIV!!

[picman]

Pesky pigeons ... net and re-sow , I always put mag-lime on them( the peas :) stops a lot of pests and the peas love it...