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Mice or squirrels
Ilikeplants
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Well my peas and beans start sprouting well but something keeps eating the new shoots and there’s a little hole next to it so I think it’s got to be mice - very tiresome. It’s more the peas and mange-tout rather than French beans but they’ve probably had both. Even putting a mesh over them hasn’t deterred them so I think it’s mice rather than squirrels. Squirrels are at the moment eating green strawberries brazenly sitting on the fence.
Do you just accept it and grow it to a good size in pots before planting out then hoping that they’re less interested in larger plants? It’s hard to tell if there are enough peas to climb the wigwam at this stage or how many bean plants I’ll have.
Do you just accept it and grow it to a good size in pots before planting out then hoping that they’re less interested in larger plants? It’s hard to tell if there are enough peas to climb the wigwam at this stage or how many bean plants I’ll have.
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Mesh won't do anything to prevent them. They can squeeze through the tiniest of holes. If the holes were small enough to stop them, it would be too dense to allow light through
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Even more annoying is that I thought there was a spare bit of ground where I could put a strawberry plant in and I ended up cutting into some peas or beans that were just beginning to sprout under there. I’m just going to leave everything for a week or two now to see what pops up.