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Bob Hobden wrote:
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.

Yep, that sounds like the one. I've closed the greenhouse vent, but I
doubt it
will stop them.

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.

Well we /are/ using guttering, and it's not stopped them. :-(

I started my peas here in paper pots, no mice touched them, but an insect
did. I have a cat so no mice. They are now planted out with netting.