02-08-2010, 01:15 PM
I have managed to get my tomato seeds to sprout and several seem to be doing very well. But yesterday or last night something ate the top off all of my smaller starters. I thought it was slugs, but I have slug pellet and bait all around them. Every single one was chopped off at the top of the stem.
Could it be a mongoose (we saw one sneaking around the area), or birds? This happened last year with our beans and papaya starts too and at that time I thought it was slugs but now that I have the bait all around I can't imagine they can so carefully bypass the bait and just take the tops off the delicate stems, which are on a tray on top of an upside down bucket.
Could it be a mongoose (we saw one sneaking around the area), or birds? This happened last year with our beans and papaya starts too and at that time I thought it was slugs but now that I have the bait all around I can't imagine they can so carefully bypass the bait and just take the tops off the delicate stems, which are on a tray on top of an upside down bucket.