Would you believe it????

[Nicos]

Last week we planted a Globe Artichoke nearby another, well established one.
I've just gone to give it a watering ..and the whole plant has gone!!!
Nope- no-one has been in the garden and pulled it out through the membrane...it's been eaten from below- there is a 1 1/2" tunnel passing directly beneath it parallel to the ground!
Yes- we do have moles- but also shrews/voles...I wonder which ate it ( nothing left at all!!!!)

[binley100]

Could you imagine sitting there and watching it disappear slowly into the ground.........

[lizzylemon]

Not moles for sure - I shared my old veggie patch with a mole for the whole time I was there (3.5 years) and apart root disturbance there was no problem with moles eating the veg - worms, slugs etc are the main diet of Mr moley mole (insectivor?).

I suspect your problem is the vole type creature you've got living there - specially one THAT size

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[FionaH]

Whatever it was it is pretty well fed now!

[vicky]

Bizarrely I keep finding bits of mine chewed off too - we have moles and voles and the moles are def round this area, I've seen their tunnels passing in that bed before...