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Where have our lettuce gone?

InTheMoorlandsInTheMoorlands Posts: 161
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On Saturday the OH thinned out two troughs of lettuce and replanted them in two spare toughs.  These are the origional troughs after thinning and the second lot of troughs looked just like these, as you would expect:

I watered them last night and OH has just been to look at them and found this:


Not a sign or remnant of the lettuce.  Anyone any idea as to what has happened as we are completely baffled?

At about 750 feet on the western edge of The Pennines.  Clay soil.  

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



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • JennyJJennyJ Posts: 10,576
    Maybe Peter Rabbit paid you a visit! But slugs are more likely.
    Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
  • Allotment BoyAllotment Boy Posts: 6,774
    I agree  slugs, if you scratch about in the soil, you should be able to find the remnants of the stems and roots in there.  If not then maybe something like a rabbit may have pulled the whole plant out.
    AB Still learning

  • InTheMoorlandsInTheMoorlands Posts: 161
    We have had more trouble with slugs this year, presumably due to wet weather.  We had to use slug pellets this year for the first time.  However, I've never known slugs to be so efficient.  Looking at our other plants slugs are 'messy' eaters.

    Cannot find any remnants of anything in the soil.  I can't see it being a rabbit as the lettuce in the other troughs is intact and we have two very capable cats who patrol the gardens at regular intervals.


    At about 750 feet on the western edge of The Pennines.  Clay soil.  
  • diggersjodiggersjo Posts: 172
    ... or birds pigeon, sparrows.... think slugs would leave traces. But if you have rabbits about!
    Yorkshire, ex Italy and North East coast. Growing too old for it!
  • InTheMoorlandsInTheMoorlands Posts: 161
    diggersjo said:
    ... or birds pigeon, sparrows.... think slugs would leave traces. But if you have rabbits about!

    We have loads of doves around with two nests in our garden.  I've seen as many as about ten at the same time.  I'd say doves rather than slugs (no signs of)  but then the other lettuce is just a few feet away.  It is on a path by a wall while the new stuff was behind the greenhouse in the open so that may have doomed it!

    I've never seen rabbits in 35 years.
    At about 750 feet on the western edge of The Pennines.  Clay soil.  
  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    Whatever creature it was, you would still have to say, why didn't it eat the plants in the other trough?
    Perhaps it / they were full, or scared off.
    Don't think it was slugs, they usually leave some trace.
    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
  • tui34tui34 Posts: 3,493
    @InTheMoorlands   They've gone to the same place as my lettuces - into someone's tummy!!  

    My snails don't leave much trace @punkdoc  they are very wily!!  Strangely enough, they don't lie the bitterness of the scarole or curly lettuce....much...  My Pak Choi are now invisible to the naked eye - just the roots are left.  
    A good hoeing is worth two waterings.

  • daca34948daca34948 Posts: 11
    Same thing happened to my garlic and green onion plant,

    Have no clue what happened.

    Only think i noticed is bunch of ants less than 1 meter away...
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