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What's been eating my dahlia?

Dirty HarryDirty Harry Posts: 1,048
in Problem solving
Haven't noticed stem damage like this on a plant before-



Thankfully looks old and the stem is flowering now.

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  • Dirty HarryDirty Harry Posts: 1,048
    Anyone?
  • AnniDAnniD Posts: 12,585
    Slugs or snails perhaps? 
  • Dirty HarryDirty Harry Posts: 1,048
    Is that normal slug damage? Have never noticed the stems suffer before and certainly not at that sort of height.

  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    That looks to me more as if a leaf of shoot has been ripped off ... and it looks as if some other leaves have been ripped too ... any woodpigeons in your garden?  They’ll take almost any young green leaves that take their fancy. 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





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