sweet corn

[brown thumb]

some things been eating my sweetcorn, Its shredding the leaves and eating the kernels, not sure if its field mice or birds Is there any way of finding out so i can net or just pray ill get to them first

[brown thumb]

[markfield rover]

We have had problems on two sites with badgers going straight for the corn, and there is very little we can without licences.

[markfield rover]

Sorry missed out the -do

[macmac]

Badger helps himself to both sweetcorn and peas on the lottie , so have to grow them at home.

[Flighty]

Squirrels will eat sweetcorn.

[Digeroo]

No sign of badgers here, I think the deer like them too.

[peanuts]

it's mice with us, we're virtually certain.  I had lots of cut off plastic bottles that I use for cloches in the spring, so rammed these on  each cob to protect them as best as I could, leaving the two worst ones still available - and that worked very well.  We'd just caught them in time. 

[brown thumb]

did the mice strip the outer leaves to shreds and ate the kernels away if so may i should use your idea and cover them with plastic bottles

[strawberry1]

on our allotments too. Only the sweetcorn patch, bashed and broken down and half eaten cobs strewn about. Looked like vandalism but was a badger, first time on our site