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Uprooted lettuce seedlings
I have prepared a lovely vegie bed and planted some seedlings of
lettuce, kale, silverbeet and snow peas just a week ago. It's been raining so I have sprinkled spent coffee grounds and eggshells around the seedlings to deter the slimy slugs and snails. This seems to be working well. Last night I found 2 lettuces uprooted and slightly nibbled. What would be uprooting the lettuce but not touching the other seedlings. I hope I don't get home tonight to find more uprooting? I put the lettuce back in - they should be fine. Can anyone assist with identifying this strange activity? I'm going to sit in wait soon! I'm stumped. It's such a delicate lifting of the roots! Thank you! |
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Uprooted lettuce seedlings
Where do you live?
City bush state? "lilipili" wrote in message ... I have prepared a lovely vegie bed and planted some seedlings of lettuce, kale, silverbeet and snow peas just a week ago. It's been raining so I have sprinkled spent coffee grounds and eggshells around the seedlings to deter the slimy slugs and snails. This seems to be working well. Last night I found 2 lettuces uprooted and slightly nibbled. What would be uprooting the lettuce but not touching the other seedlings. I hope I don't get home tonight to find more uprooting? I put the lettuce back in - they should be fine. Can anyone assist with identifying this strange activity? I'm going to sit in wait soon! I'm stumped. It's such a delicate lifting of the roots! Thank you! |
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lilipili wrote:
I have prepared a lovely vegie bed and planted some seedlings of lettuce, kale, silverbeet and snow peas just a week ago. It's been raining so I have sprinkled spent coffee grounds and eggshells around the seedlings to deter the slimy slugs and snails. This seems to be working well. Last night I found 2 lettuces uprooted and slightly nibbled. What would be uprooting the lettuce but not touching the other seedlings. I hope I don't get home tonight to find more uprooting? I put the lettuce back in - they should be fine. Can anyone assist with identifying this strange activity? I'm going to sit in wait soon! I'm stumped. It's such a delicate lifting of the roots! Thank you! Rabbits ? -- Anne Chambers South Australia anne dot chambers at bigpond dot com |
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"lilipili" wrote in message
... I have prepared a lovely vegie bed and planted some seedlings of lettuce, kale, silverbeet and snow peas just a week ago. It's been raining so I have sprinkled spent coffee grounds and eggshells around the seedlings to deter the slimy slugs and snails. This seems to be working well. Last night I found 2 lettuces uprooted and slightly nibbled. What would be uprooting the lettuce but not touching the other seedlings. I hope I don't get home tonight to find more uprooting? I put the lettuce back in - they should be fine. Can anyone assist with identifying this strange activity? I'm going to sit in wait soon! I'm stumped. It's such a delicate lifting of the roots! Thank you! Birds. |
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Uprooted lettuce seedlings
On Tue, 25 May 2010 16:19:37 -0700, lilipili wrote:
Last night I found 2 lettuces uprooted and slightly nibbled. What would be uprooting the lettuce but not touching the other seedlings. Black birds or similar insectivorous birds. |
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Uprooted lettuce seedlings
On Wed, 26 May 2010 10:24:29 +0930, Anne Chambers wrote:
Rabbits ? You must have sick rabbits down your way. IME, any rabbit, except extremely well fed pets, can make a young lettuce plant disappear. |
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Uprooted lettuce seedlings
Elephants can do this.
Depends on where she lives.... Emu' Ostriches. Turkeys? Bush or rural. Nasty neighbour? "terryc" wrote in message ... On Tue, 25 May 2010 16:19:37 -0700, lilipili wrote: Last night I found 2 lettuces uprooted and slightly nibbled. What would be uprooting the lettuce but not touching the other seedlings. Black birds or similar insectivorous birds. |
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Uprooted lettuce seedlings
On May 26, 9:34*am, "Jonno" wrote:
Where do you live? City bush state?"lilipili" wrote in message ... I have prepared a lovely vegie bed and planted some seedlings of lettuce, kale, silverbeet and snow peas just a week ago. It's been raining so I have sprinkled spent coffee grounds and eggshells around the seedlings to deter the slimy slugs and snails. This seems to be working well. Last night I found 2 lettuces uprooted and slightly nibbled. What would be uprooting the lettuce but not touching the other seedlings. I hope I don't get home tonight to find more uprooting? I put the lettuce back in - they should be fine. Can anyone assist with identifying this strange activity? I'm going to sit in wait soon! I'm stumped. It's such a delicate lifting of the roots! Thank you!- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - I live on the outskirts of the city near the Hills. It happened again! - just one lettuce, completely uprooted. But nothing touching the silverbeet, kale or snowpeas, except slugs, that have all been hunted down. |
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