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Re: Bush Bean Seedlings

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Your critter may also be a bunny rabbit.  Those cute little things are
voracious and the pet ones we had as kids would eat up anything that was
plastic (food bowls, water bottles, you name it)!  This spring, I had a
family of bunnies that competed nightly for my onions and bean seedlings,
which were in the same bed.  The bean seedlings were about the same size as
yours, maybe slightly bigger.  Some of the ones that they ate the tops off
of recovered and sprouted a side shoot.  Some didn't.  The onions were
another story!  The only thing that kept them out of my bed was wire
fencing with 1" holes.  After that, I won round 2!


Good Luck!!

Kristine
SE Ohio, Zone 5b




At 08:28 AM 8/25/99 -0400, you wrote:
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>Hi everyone.  This is my first time posting, although I've been avidly
>reading the list now for about a year!  This is my second year at gardening,
>the first attempt failed miserably.  For the most part things have been
>going really well, up until now.  Yesterday, I went to my garden only to
>find that "something", I'm thinking a groundhog, ate through the fence.  The
>fence is made with green plastic fencing, and apparently whatever it was
>chewed through enough "links" in the fence to get in.  (I went to the store
>last night and bought chicken wire to reinforce the bottom half of the
>fence.  Problem solved, hopefully.)  
>
>Luckily, the damage wasn't as bad as it could have been.  It mainly
>destroyed a patch of lettuce that had already bolted.  (Good thing I hadn't
>pulled it yet!)  But it also ate the top half of most of my bush bean
>seedlings, which were about 3 inches tall with leaves about an inch long.
>My question to everyone is whether or not they will recover and grow new
>leaves, or has the groundhog won round 1?
>
>Thanks,
>Jeannette Davis
>SW PA, zone 6
>
>
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Copeland 209B
(740) 593-2466


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