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planetearth
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Squirrel or pigeon or...
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September 11, 2012, 08:06:56 »
All of my runner and dwarf beans failed in June this year because some creature cut them down about 3 inches above the ground. The runners were nipped off on the single stem and each branch of the dwarf beans was cut off and left like a skeleton.
I wasn't slugs or mice because the (diagonal) cut was too high up the stem and too consistent and they are definitely cut. The only culprits I can think of are pigeons or squirrels. It has never happened before and I can't think why it has happened this year.
I have also noticed the ends of new growth on a fir tree and whitebeam have also recently been cut and dropped in just the same way and they are 20-30 feet off the ground, so the culprit isn't human either.
So what is it, why, will it continue or is it another freak of 2012?
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Robert_Brenchley
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September 11, 2012, 17:59:39 »
I hope the latter, since I had the same problem, and I've never seen it before either. It didn't affect all my beans, but I lost 90% of the Kew Blue, which is the only one which produced early enough to have given me a decent crop.
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