A couple of days ago I netted the strawberries because the first ones were turning red. Yesterday I checked on them again and there were two that I guessed should be ready today. I collected my two sprogs from school and headed for the allotment with the intention of allowing them to pluck the first strawberries from the plant and munch them on the spot. Netting is still in place and not a ripe strawberry in sight. The two that I'd been keeping an eye on were gone. I just don't believe it! We don't have a theft problem at our site, and there's no way a bird would have got in there, this has left me completely confuddled!
SLUGS! >:( :-[
Me too, although not this year so far ...
Well in that case I'll be out with the slug pellets tomorrow, horrid beasties >:( They didn't even leave a scrap of evidence.
Quote from: autumn-beauty on June 07, 2006, 20:49:51
Well in that case I'll be out with the slug pellets tomorrow, horrid beasties >:( They didn't even leave a scrap of evidence.
Slugs would probably leave the core behind or at least the leafy surround. If that and/or the stem's gone too then you do indeed have a two-legged predator.
moonbells
I couldn't put slug pellets out today. I don't want to harm my little blackbird friend who was there again today. Nothing was left moonbells, not even the leafy surround was there which I thought strange because slugs usually leave something.
i hope they choked on them!!
You would def know if it was slugs me thinks you have slugs with two feet.
Last year some one cleared the gooseberries off my friends bush it was stripped bare. One of the down sides of having a lottie.