Do Mice like broadbeans?

[daviddevantnhisspiritwife]

Cos the buggers have eaten my peas and I am wondering if I should be protecting them with razor wire and a moat.

Popped into the top greenhouse and something has gotten under the cell tray lid and eaten 30 ish out of 40. I should set up CCTV on the remains!

[lottie dolly]

yes they will eat the moist new swollen beans,i cover mine either with debri netting or a plastic cover,make sure the netting is under as well as over,and tucked under,

[arpoet]

I have a few families of mice in my garden. I put down seeds under the tree and banks where they live and mice are so busy nicking em from under the beaks of the birds they leave all my veg plot alone.
Mice are far less trouble than them flying pigs.....................

[Scarlet]

You're lucky you've got 10 left! I have to start mine indoors, they don't seem to bother with them once they have been chitted. Good luck!

[sparrow100]

I've just sowed my 3rd batch. I don't have mice, but I do have jackdaws and magpies. And they've learned how to pull out tent pegs, the little bleeders! 24 out of 39 seedlings decapitated/pulled out and destroyed.

[keen bean]

I have had the same problem! I sowed about 120 broad beans and have about 40 left. We wondered what on earth was eating them so protected with netting. Came outside one day to find a mouse under the netting running around! Mine are autumn sown and the little rascal is now leaving the ones that are left as they are a bit bigger now. But I will definitely be sowing indoors from now on!



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[SoulBroNo1]

Like? They love em

[Jeanied]

I found they don't go for the chitted ones. No idea why.

[areia]

I had the blighters last year getting into my greenhouse nicking them didnt realise they could get into a spaces soo small

[AllInContainers]

You need a panda with a lightsabre, every garden needs a panda with a lightsabre ...



I'm partway there, I do have a lightsabre.

No luck on the panda front yet, but I'm not growing broad beans this year so I'm not too concerned

(sorry childish mood tonight - I saw that pic and laughed so hard, I nearly fell off my space hopper ...)

[daviddevantnhisspiritwife]

Thanks guys, looks like I'll have to relocate the broadies then, though they are in the open cold frame at the other end of the garden. Didn't seem that the greedy little tykes had got to them.

Luckily I have plenty of peas and beans left to sow, will make sure I put the cell trays in a tray with a brick on the lid and/or chit some.

Upon closer inspection, it's also had brussel sprout, cabbage and kale seeds out of the trays. If I get a chance I'll take a photo - it made a tidy job of it.

[binley100]

I planted out a load of chitted ones that were growing on nicely only to go back and find all the stems had been nipped through and the seeds all dug up .....so now I wait until the seed isn't worth anything before they get planted out ..

[Scarlet]

Luckily I have plenty of peas and beans left to sow

One year I took my bag of broad bean seeds up with me and accidentally left them n the GH! Next day they were all gone... Little b@ggers!