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What's destroying my garden!

sasha25993sasha25993 Posts: 2
in Problem solving
So today I have come home to find my Clematis severed just above the soil. No sign of slugs or snails... It's boiling hot! My peppers went the same way, severed through the stem, not Eaten, just broken off. Any ideas what it is and how I can stop it? Help please! 
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  • herbaceousherbaceous Posts: 2,318
    No real idea Sasha but if they were very dry and brittle could be large animal interference? There are two large cats, bane of my life, that visit and flatten allsorts. Could the stems have snapped?
    "The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it."  Sir Terry Pratchett
  • Joyce GoldenlilyJoyce Goldenlily Posts: 2,933

    Beavers?!

    Are the remains of the plants left behind or have they disappeared? You need to identify the culprit before constructing Fort Knox to enclose your whole garden.

  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    Rabbits, badgers, deer?   Where are you and what surrounds your garden?
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    Grump neighbours, OH?
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    Other people’s horrible kids? 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    My next door neighbour's girlfriend didn't like me and snapped off all the clematis on their side of the trellis. The neighbour and I had planted it together. It took me ages to figure out what had happened and why the clem wasn't growing well.
  • sasha25993sasha25993 Posts: 2
    No human interference, it's in a locked back garden. 
    Not dry... well watered daily.
    Suburban garden. Get a few cats, a hedgehog but nothing like deer, rabbits or badgers.
    I tried to break it and struggles, would have taken some force, it's torn off, not a clean break.
    Tempted to try a motion camera but it's knowing where to put it for where it's going to strike next! 
    Thanks all
  • MayLaneMayLane Posts: 203
    Weevil? Although we are in beetle stage I think rather than grub. I am infested.
  • SkandiSkandi Posts: 1,723
    Hmm could a rabbit get it? perhaps a tame one from somewhere close by, might nibble on it like that. Possibly voles as well. When something like that happens here it's normaly wind, but you've not mentioned any winds and town gardens are more sheltered than mine is.
  • LG_LG_ Posts: 4,360
    I have had damage like that and it's either been foxes or squirrels. Not sure which for which plant. 
    'If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.'
    - Cicero
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