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Produce => Edible Plants => Topic started by: brown thumb on September 14, 2013, 10:53:41

Title: sweet corn
Post by: brown thumb on September 14, 2013, 10:53:41
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
Title: Re: sweet corn
Post by: markfield rover on September 14, 2013, 13:31:04
We have had problems on two sites with badgers going straight for the corn, and there is very little we can without licences.
Title: Re: sweet corn
Post by: markfield rover on September 14, 2013, 13:34:41
Sorry missed out the -do
Title: Re: sweet corn
Post by: macmac on September 14, 2013, 13:48:19
Badger helps himself to both sweetcorn and peas on the lottie , so have to grow them at home. :happy7:
Title: Re: sweet corn
Post by: Flighty on September 14, 2013, 13:54:04
Squirrels will eat sweetcorn.
Title: Re: sweet corn
Post by: Digeroo on September 14, 2013, 14:18:51
No sign of badgers here, I think the deer like them too.
Title: Re: sweet corn
Post by: peanuts on September 14, 2013, 17:31:09
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. 
Title: Re: sweet corn
Post by: brown thumb on September 14, 2013, 21:39:23
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
Title: Re: sweet corn
Post by: strawberry1 on September 15, 2013, 08:28:08
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