I planted several rows of Roma beans in a heavily mulched area (I live in NJ).

One row seems to be doing fine, but the other row, one by one, is disappearing.
It seems to be from underground. Could moles be doing this, or is it a
chipmunk. I never had it happen quite like this before (they took my geranium
and chomped it from under the ground also).

Is there anything I can use to prevent this from happening?

I had the same thing happen one year. I felt it was squirrels. When I dug
around, I found all the seeds gone. I replanted, but I covered each hill of
seeds with chicken wire in two layers. The first was just chicken wire. The
second layer was the same, but I used wire cutters to cut some wires and
bend them upward. No more problems with disappearing plants. And, the holes
in the chicken wire are big enough so it can be lifted off carefully without
hurting the plants.

"Mceezee" wrote in message
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I planted several rows of Roma beans in a heavily mulched area (I live in
NJ).

One row seems to be doing fine, but the other row, one by one, is
disappearing.
It seems to be from underground. Could moles be doing this, or is it a
chipmunk. I never had it happen quite like this before (they took my
geranium
and chomped it from under the ground also).

Is there anything I can use to prevent this from happening?

"Doug Kanter" wrote in message t.net...
I had the same thing happen one year. I felt it was squirrels. When I dug
around, I found all the seeds gone. I replanted, but I covered each hill of
seeds with chicken wire in two layers. The first was just chicken wire. The
second layer was the same, but I used wire cutters to cut some wires and
bend them upward. No more problems with disappearing plants. And, the holes
in the chicken wire are big enough so it can be lifted off carefully without
hurting the plants.

"Mceezee" wrote in message
...

I planted several rows of Roma beans in a heavily mulched area (I live in
NJ).

One row seems to be doing fine, but the other row, one by one, is
disappearing.
It seems to be from underground. Could moles be doing this, or is it a
chipmunk. I never had it happen quite like this before (they took my
geranium
and chomped it from under the ground also).

Is there anything I can use to prevent this from happening?

Several years ago a pocket gopher got into our garden (we live in west
central Wisconsin about 100 miles east of Minneapolis/St. Paul). The
gopher ate about two-thirds of my carrots from the bottom up. I didn't
discover that it was eating the carrots until I started to pull some
of them, thinking we would have fresh carrots for supper. Right.

My husband set traps and eventually caught the culprit.

Is that an option for you? To set traps if you think something is
eating your garden from the bottom up?

Good luck with your garden,

LeAnn

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