Help! mice are eating half my vegetables: salad (especially radicchio), Swiss chard (which I especially like), parsley.
The make galleries under the plants and eat the roots and main stem. Luckily the do not attack the tomatoes and green peppers or the beans (for the moment). I should explain that I am in Tuscany, the soil is very dry and hard except for the rows of vegetables where I keep the ground soft with drip water tubes.
Unfortunately a large snake managed to strangle itself by trying to force its way through some butterfly netting. That would have been a real help against the mice.
Its really disheartening to see ones hard work (I nurture my plants like babies) being gobbled up.
I don't want to use poison. What can I do!!
Tony