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HELP! Plants under attack!

Nick Gurney 250Nick Gurney 250 Posts: 22
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Everything in my garden that is not evergreen is being systematically and voraciously eaten by something. It starts out as a "shotgun" effect and continues until the plant is stripped to stems.
Not slugs, nor caterpillars, no obvious bugs.
Any ideas what might be doing it?
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  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    Pictures might help.
    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
  • KardemomKardemom Posts: 8
    There is something called shothole disease


    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shot_hole_disease
  • Nick Gurney 250Nick Gurney 250 Posts: 22
    Kardemom said:
    There is something called shothole disease


    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shot_hole_disease

    Don't think that applies -this is on ALL my soft leaved plants, rhubarb, mint, salvias, sage, horseradish...
  • Nick Gurney 250Nick Gurney 250 Posts: 22
    edited October 2021
    This rhubarb arrived a week ago and has been reduced to this.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Slugs and/or snails do that to rhubarb leaves.

    There are far too many slug pellets there ... the way slug pellets work is that the slugs like the pellets ... otherwise they wouldn't eat them, so by using so many you are actually attracting them to the area.  Three or four pellets per pot would be ample.  

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





  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    That is Slug and Snail damage.
    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
  • amancalledgeorgeamancalledgeorge Posts: 2,736
    Have you done any evening raids with a torch? I bet you'll find a lot of slugs and snails. Get an old pair of scissors and good bye to them. 
    To Plant a Garden is to Believe in Tomorrow
  • bédébédé Posts: 3,095
    I need more details.  It could be so many things.  In my garden it might be Roe Deer, or Pheasants.  Rabbits might be another culprit.
     location: Surrey Hills, England, ex-woodland acidic sand.
    "Have nothing in your garden that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    @bédé. I’ve never seen deer eat leaves in that fashion.  Or rabbits  come to think.
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    There wouldn't be any leaves at all if it was deer or rabbits  :D
    As @Dovefromabove says - too many slug pellets attracts them. About 4 would be plenty for the size of those pots @Nick Gurney 250  :)
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
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