Broad Bean Seedlings

[planesailing]

Something is digging around my broad beans and then snipping them clean across the stem, any ideas what this could be?

I have put bamboo canes around, half is shielded with scaffold netting and there is some pea netting across the top but still it is happening.

I have now but a Pound Store plastic polytunnel across in a vain effort to stop this.

Would it be a bird or a mammal? This will affect if I go for finer netting over the top, or carry my scaffolding netting around the whole space.

[binley100]

Meeces did that to mine last autumn. They snipped off the stems then dug a neat little hole and pinched the seed. This time I got them growing strongly at home then planted them out with a plastic bottle collar for each one and touchwood ........they are now flowering. I left the collar in place until they were pretty well established .

[Two_Sheds]

I would definitely suspect mice: I had the same damage in the autumn, and I definitely have mice on the plot.

[planesailing]

They are now completely surrounded by scaffolding netting which is buried into the soil, lets hope that keeps them out!!!

Will have to sow some extra late as it decimated my seedlings!

[ann-the-nan]

Broad Bean Seedlings

The ones I planted last October/November were annihilated (sp?) by meeces, so I replanted in the early part of the year and covered them with insect mesh. Mice free now and hopefully will be black-fly free.

[frogga]

We had mice that did the same thin to ours in february, we put traps in our greenhouse and caught the culprit luckily, we grew the next batch in the living room to be safe however. All are flowering now, and looking healthy.

[planesailing]

The mesh isn't working, the mouse is coming in by digging in underneath! Any ideas, or is simply time for a trap?