If the stems are also chomped maybe slugs / snails, mine have tattered leaves and that's pigeons. So netting or sticks around to stop them getting at them.
Someone's done that to my tallest sunflower - it didn't climb up from the ground 'cos I'd surrounded it with coarse sand - it climbed down from the pear tree
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
We have to be aware that slug pellets actually attract slugs it is a fine line between destroying them and guiding them to the plants that we want to protect.
my beans and sunflowers appear to be attacked and shredded at night. I have tried crushed egg shells, because snails dont like uneven surfaces, but still it goes on.
Mine are suffering from minor rabbit or mouse attack at the moment! What also usually happens is that I can forget the beans that are less than say a foot off the ground as something always has a nibble at those - definately mice or rabbits or, on the odd occasion, an escaped hen!
I started mine in pots in the greenhouse, half were eaten ( on 10 day holiday) on my return. Noticed a nibbled pack of sweet corn seeds nearby had been eaten, including packet, so concluded it was a hungry mouse!
New seeds planted in ground and surviving plants transplanted. Next attack came. Have used bird scare tape, slug pellets but now have cut holly and placed it round the plants,3 days on, so far so good.
Slugs are relentless so I have to attack from multiple fronts: I have had good results with a tuna or cat food can, sunk into the earth and filled with beer. It attracts slugs and then drown in beer, a happy death. I crush my egg shells in a food processor and spread them--won't get them all, but some and the garden needs calcium. Also, put your coffee grounds around the plants that the slugs are eating. Finally, I spread diatomaceous earth, but this has to be reapplied after it rains. If you can get a nice toad to live in your garden, he'll eat the slugs as well.
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If the stems are also chomped maybe slugs / snails, mine have tattered leaves and that's pigeons. So netting or sticks around to stop them getting at them.
I had a problem, my bean leaves were being eaten up to chest high - it was deer! Could it be rabbits? My veggie garden now has a high fence.
Last night I watched a slug chomping the top of one of my broad beans. It chomped through the top 3" of stem..... .. TIMBER!
Someone's done that to my tallest sunflower - it didn't climb up from the ground 'cos I'd surrounded it with coarse sand - it climbed down from the pear tree
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
You have to give them 10 out of 10 for perseverance. How long would it take to get UP the pear tree in the first place
We have to be aware that slug pellets actually attract slugs it is a fine line between destroying them and guiding them to the plants that we want to protect.
carol wood
my beans and sunflowers appear to be attacked and shredded at night. I have tried crushed egg shells, because snails dont like uneven surfaces, but still it goes on.
Mine are suffering from minor rabbit or mouse attack at the moment! What also usually happens is that I can forget the beans that are less than say a foot off the ground as something always has a nibble at those - definately mice or rabbits or, on the odd occasion, an escaped hen!
I started mine in pots in the greenhouse, half were eaten ( on 10 day holiday) on my return. Noticed a nibbled pack of sweet corn seeds nearby had been eaten, including packet, so concluded it was a hungry mouse!
New seeds planted in ground and surviving plants transplanted. Next attack came. Have used bird scare tape, slug pellets but now have cut holly and placed it round the plants,3 days on, so far so good.
Slugs are relentless so I have to attack from multiple fronts: I have had good results with a tuna or cat food can, sunk into the earth and filled with beer. It attracts slugs and then drown in beer, a happy death. I crush my egg shells in a food processor and spread them--won't get them all, but some and the garden needs calcium. Also, put your coffee grounds around the plants that the slugs are eating. Finally, I spread diatomaceous earth, but this has to be reapplied after it rains. If you can get a nice toad to live in your garden, he'll eat the slugs as well.