[quote=middlefield;168802]The little critters ate my peas as quickly as I could sow them last year, resulting in a very low pea-yield.QUOTE]

Hmm, last year my hubby went to harvest the carrots, grabbed hold of a load of the leaves and pulled...and was dissapointed to find our allotment mice had eaten through the tops of all our carrot crop. In his hand were the 'carrot tops' , in the ground were the body of the carrots. But it was perfect, like a beaver knawing a log, and the tops had still been standing proudly upright, no wilting or falling over. It was very funny for the first handfull, after the tenth we were a bit cross!!