@MrsGlaze, in the interests of money saving, and keeping the peace I think you might have guessed Is more to do with what they don't do....
@Posy, you hit the nail on the head . "
It's the things you can't control that drive you to despair, isn't it"
@Allotment Boy sorry I thought cutworms were the little root eating ones and mis read about your Acer. I hope you manage to find a way to stop the horrible things decimating your crops.
Like you there was the Beast, set things back or killed things off.
Don't know which for sure, because it was followed by the SHEEP - 3 rams of mine, which became Ovine Olympic jumpers and ate everything off at ground level. I raised the height of loads of fencing, but couldn't do it fast enough to stop a lot of damage.
The knacker man solved the problem for the worst 2. Not a favoured option, but had to do something before tupping time began for all the neighbours' sheep!
Then weeks of Drought when even our house spring failed, so I literally had no water to give plants.
Only my separately fenced veg garden saved me from total despair - it became a refuge for many young plants and my salvias, penstemons and agapanthus, and the sweetpeas and dahlias were wonderful and saved my sanity.(What there is of it!)
I am waiting till next spring to find out whether many things have it in them to resprout.
Comiserations to all that have suffered losses still next year will be different won't it? Perhaps @Dovefromabove, & @Hostafan1 need to give us all some tips as they say they have not had any problems.
Badgers. They climb. They dig. Their claws can pull metal mesh apart. They are immune to electric fences. They need a lot of food. They produce a lot of foul smelling poop. They travel long distances away from home. They know they are protected.
Another "new" to me pest has surfaced. We have a perennial Fuchsia in the front garden it was here when we came- tough as old boots performs every year. Recently in this unusual mild weather the tips of stems & leaves were puckered & twisted plus a strange pinkish colour. Reading the August copy of the Garden I realised it is Fuchsia Gall mite- no cure no treatment cut the whole plant down. Hope the plant comes back next year!
Scale insects and their poo on my orchids. Molluscs, but that goes without saying. Lost swathes of seedlings to them in the spring. And a mouse who crept into the house just to eat my sweet pea seedlings. Not seen before or since.
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@Posy, you hit the nail on the head . " It's the things you can't control that drive you to despair, isn't it"
@Allotment Boy sorry I thought cutworms were the little root eating ones and mis read about your Acer.
I hope you manage to find a way to stop the horrible things decimating your crops.