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Cissik
True Blue Farmgirl
578 Posts
Sylvia
Kent
WA
USA
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 Posted - Jun 21 2017 : 08:17:43 AM
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I've planted 6 seedlings. Some mini tomatoes. There are no signs of slugs, but 4 of the smallest plants disappeared. No signs of trauma.. I'm stumped. My wienerdogs keeps rabbits out of the garden area so I've ruled out the furry one.
Any ideas? I live in the NW, we don't have snails. Do squirrels eat little plants?
Sylvia
Kent, WA
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hudsonsinaf
True Blue Farmgirl
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Shannon
Rozet
Wyoming
USA
3162 Posts |
Posted - Jun 21 2017 : 08:39:35 AM
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Sylvia - I have no clue, but mine are disappearing too, as did my tomatillos! We have six foo fencing around it, so no deer, hardwire around the bottom, so no rabbits. I'm clueless!!!
~ Shannon, Sister # 5349
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AnnieinIdaho
True Blue Farmgirl
437 Posts
Annie
ID
USA
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Posted - Jun 21 2017 : 10:13:29 PM
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Hi Sisters,
Maybe it is a mole or gopher. I do see the Northern Idaho squirrels eating all kinds of weeds and wildflowers here. They are voracious and eat much of the plants in our meadow area. I have seen them "eying" my garden. We ended up putting chicken wire around my planter boxes in addition to the fencing. We also laid chicken wire down in the garden boxes first, then weed cloth, then the soil. We have had no gophers in the garden since doing this.
Have fun gardening.
Annie
"The turnings of life seldom show a sign-post; or rather, though the sign is always there, it is usually placed some distance back, like the notices that give warning of a bad hill or a level railway-crossing." Edith Wharton, 1913 from 'The Custom of the Country'. |
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Cissik
True Blue Farmgirl
578 Posts
Sylvia
Kent
WA
USA
578 Posts |
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ceejay48
Farmgirl Legend/Schoolmarm/Sharpshooter
13568 Posts
CeeJay (CJ)
Dolores
Colorado
USA
13568 Posts |
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farmgirl68
True Blue Farmgirl
369 Posts
Katie
Bangor
Pennsylvania
USA
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Posted - Aug 19 2017 : 04:23:28 AM
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Oh, CJ, I'm so sorry!
Katie #7422
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Cissik
True Blue Farmgirl
578 Posts
Sylvia
Kent
WA
USA
578 Posts |
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ceejay48
Farmgirl Legend/Schoolmarm/Sharpshooter
13568 Posts
CeeJay (CJ)
Dolores
Colorado
USA
13568 Posts |
Posted - Sep 24 2017 : 1:07:47 PM
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Yes, squirrels are a menace!! Very disappointing. I've also had ancho peppers disappear . . . whole peppers, not mature yet! Have NOT harvested one pepper or zucchini this year. The one zucchini plant I had got powdery mildew so, since squirrels had massacred it I just dug it up and threw in the trash! I have two eggplant plants and have gotten TWO eggplants total!
CJ
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laurzgot
True Blue Farmgirl
1614 Posts
Laurie
Alvin
Texas
USA
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Posted - Sep 24 2017 : 6:52:36 PM
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Did not do well this year in my veggie garden. Only a few tomatoes, cukes and squirrels ate what was left. Then hurricane Harvey came through runied my late summer crop. Bummer. Cleaned it all up and tilled yesterday.
Hugs,
Laurie
Country girl at heart
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