There are paw prints alongside my rows and we have badgers but also foxes and wandering dogs but the disturbance is only the small circular holes in the soil to the missing bean.

It is as if the offender has pushed straight down on the bean and removed it.

Barney

Dear bigpepperplant I also have lost broad beans to this varmit. We planted aqualdulce from late september to november and all are fine except for a little frost damage. However the beans we sowed in february were devastated by the Bean Varmit. It left 1'' diameter holes all along the rows. A neighb...

Dear Cat sufferers We have been plagued by cats in our garden over the years. Tried using normal cat deterents but to no avail. In the end I made an electric fence by making an electronic pulsing circuit with a vehicle ignition coil. I carefully put a bare wire around our front garden supported on i...

I agree with Johnboy regarding not to chuck it all on and to use one or the other. We have always regarded maunure as a means of conditioning the soil with humus and encouraging the earth worms in the soil. I consider that chemical fertilizers are used only as a tonic especially nitrogen and I belie...

To Bibs and Julie I would not worry too much, just get planting. If the land is heavy chances are it will be fairly rich in nutrients (heavy land holds the goodness). When you get some manure/compost you can add it when necessary. You can line the seed drills as previously suggested with bought mult...

We grow potatoes on a small scale vintage way in Somerset and sell to Farmshops, Markets and regular customers and we hope not, because we have been planting early Rocket since the 4 March until yesterday. That is about 1/6th of the Rockets planted. We hope to get them early because that is where th...