Vicky wrote

To add my grumble to the sweetcorn thread, some little bugger has been into
the
greenhouse and munched right along the row of stupidly expensive purple
mangetout
and nipped them all off at the base of the shoot. :'(
(Why do these things never eat the cheap ones!)
I'm guessing a mouse, although I did find a snail on an upper shelf, but no
snailtrail around the pea area. (Whatever it is has also had a bit of a go
at
some of the others, I think. Or else was just careless with the remains
and
they are scattered on the other half-pipes. But nearly all my Shiraz
mangetout
are goners)


Mice usually wait until they see a shoot and then dig down and eat the pea
leaving the shoot to die. So, like all our peas this year, you will see
little holes in the soil where germinated peas should be but no actual peas.
Funny, but last year we had no trouble with mice at all on our ground sown
peas so I didn't use the grow in guttering system this year but we have lost
the lot now. Our experience here is only early peas work well, maincrop ones
get too hot/dry and never produce a decent crop.

--
Regards. Bob Hobden.
Posted to this Newsgroup from the W of London, UK