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HELP! Plants under attack!

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  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    Not Deer, Rabbits, or Pheasants, have them all here and they don’t cause damage like that.
    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
  • Nick Gurney 250Nick Gurney 250 Posts: 22
    Not deer or rabbits.
    Would slugs'n'snails strip mint as above - or attack sage?

  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    Yes  :)
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    If you can't spot anything during the day, your best bet is to have a look at night as someone up the thread suggested.🔎
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • Nick Gurney 250Nick Gurney 250 Posts: 22
    B3 said:
    If you can't spot anything during the day, your best bet is to have a look at night as someone up the thread suggested.🔎

    Thanks all- i  will try to find a torch that works!
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    It's the tiny snails which do the most damage, and they're the hardest to find  ;)

    I just let them get on with it. Life's too short. I'd spend hours out there at night if I had to hunt down every slug and snail we get here. I'm usually asleep by 9pm, so it's not realistic!
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    There's a lot of tiny snails about this year.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    I think some of the damage eg. on the sage, looks a lot as if adult vine weevils have been having a munch. 

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





  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    I’d say vine weevil on the sage,  slugs or snails on the parsley, they’ll strip a whole plant over night.   The rest is slug or snail damage. 
    This gardening lark is not as easy as some tv gardeners make it sound. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • bédébédé Posts: 3,095
    edited October 2021
    I made my comments about mammals before I realised that the picture was by the original poster.

    It might be some sort of rot.  The arrangement of the holes in rows suggests to me some damage that occured when the leaves were younger and folded.
     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."
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