Something's eating my root vegetables :(

[Bramble_killer]

First it was the carrots, a few feathery leaves one day and then nothing the next day. Last weekend, I planted 10 big chunky celeriacs out, went to look tonight and it was all decimated. Have a few more growing up in the greenhouse so not too bad on that front. The onions are also being eaten at the base.

Having been on a late night slug hunt and found a few, I'm still not entirely convinced it can be just slugs? or do I blame everything on them?

Nothing germinated this week as well, so not having a good week

[ann-the-nan]

Something's eating my root vegetables

Re the carrots, it could be carrot root fly. Try planting in tandem with tagates. Other types of marigodls work with other plants, but I am not sure which goes with which.

[zazen999]

Carrot flies don't eat carrots until there are carrots to eat. It will be slugs.

[sewer rat]

Could be birds - esp pigeons. They like the feathery foliage - they're also pretty keen on Florence fennel for the same reason.

[BarleySugar]

my slugs haven't touched the celeriac, but maybe they just prefer the lettuce

[Two_Sheds]

Def. slugs and snails.

[Bramble_killer]

Yup, went slug hunting and found an amazing variety of slugs. We have teeny ones, large ones bigger than yer average garden snail and all sorts in between sizes.

Guess I do have a slug problem after all.

[coreopsis]

Definitely not slugs.My place is absolutely overriden by them.I planted some lettuce(I had oo many anyway)and it was munched away in 2 nights.Celeriacs are sitting in the ground (neighbouring bed)over 2 weeks and slugs don't touch them.I have nice,healthy sturdy plants without a bite from slugs.Another thing against slugs-celeriac is related to parsley,slugs don't eat parsley-last year they ate all dill growing beside parsley but didn't touch parsley.Check out for any other beasties.