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    Something's eating my root vegetables :(

    First it was the carrots, a few feathery leaves one day and then nothing the next day. Last weekend, I planted 10 big chunky celeriacs out, went to look tonight and it was all decimated. Have a few more growing up in the greenhouse so not too bad on that front. The onions are also being eaten at the base.

    Having been on a late night slug hunt and found a few, I'm still not entirely convinced it can be just slugs? or do I blame everything on them?

    Nothing germinated this week as well, so not having a good week
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    Something's eating my root vegetables

    Re the carrots, it could be carrot root fly. Try planting in tandem with tagates. Other types of marigodls work with other plants, but I am not sure which goes with which.
    There's pleasure sure in being mad that only madmen know - Anon

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    • #3
      Carrot flies don't eat carrots until there are carrots to eat. It will be slugs.

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      • #4
        Could be birds - esp pigeons. They like the feathery foliage - they're also pretty keen on Florence fennel for the same reason.
        Rat

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        • #5
          my slugs haven't touched the celeriac, but maybe they just prefer the lettuce
          I could not live without a garden, it is my place to unwind and recover, to marvel at the power of all growing things, even weeds!
          Now a little Shrinking Violet.

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          • #6
            Def. slugs and snails.
            All gardeners know better than other gardeners." -- Chinese Proverb.

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            • #7
              Yup, went slug hunting and found an amazing variety of slugs. We have teeny ones, large ones bigger than yer average garden snail and all sorts in between sizes.

              Guess I do have a slug problem after all.

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              • #8
                Definitely not slugs.My place is absolutely overriden by them.I planted some lettuce(I had oo many anyway)and it was munched away in 2 nights.Celeriacs are sitting in the ground (neighbouring bed)over 2 weeks and slugs don't touch them.I have nice,healthy sturdy plants without a bite from slugs.Another thing against slugs-celeriac is related to parsley,slugs don't eat parsley-last year they ate all dill growing beside parsley but didn't touch parsley.Check out for any other beasties.

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