Down plot today.... somethings hungry!

[OliveOil]

Went up early this morning - lovely day for it and some little bugger has eaten all my aquadulce claudia!!! Lotty members reckon mice or pheasants... what can i do to stop them?  Today i sowed some peas and Sutton BBeans - will cover over tomorrow though i'm sure if its mice they will get in and pull em out again.

Also notice my onion tops had been nibbled - luckily they left the garlic or i would have been really mad!

[OliveOil]

[saddad]

Sharp pruning like berberis/pyracantha/holly should keep mice off them...
Some people use parrafin.... (?)
???

[manicscousers]

something's been eating our onions as well, Olive, I think it's slugs but I would like to be wrong, bad luck about your broadies  :)

[artichoke]

People say that if you germinate your bean seeds first (couple of days in damp cloth and plastic bag in airing cupboard) they lose their attraction for mice etc. Difficult to prove, but I always do this and have never had mouse attack, while neighbours have shown me neat rows of little holes.

It's worth protecting them from birds once they start showing above ground.

[Hyacinth]

something's been eating our onions as well, Olive

SNAP! about 1/3 of my red onions, which had about 5-6" shoots,  have just gorn :(  Yhey're planted in a block and these have disappeared from the middle.

[OliveOil]

ahhh - its only my red onions affected too!!!

I planted some more bbeans and i have some in loo rolls at home too! Looks like another investment in enviromesh and fleece I think...

[Rowan]

I lost a whole bed of aquadulce claudia which I sowed in November. Not one came up! I don't know what took them. The other beds weren't so bad but there still wasn't full germination. (The very early beans I sowed in October did best - more to eat at that time of year perhaps?)