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Would have to be a huge rat to drag right away from the plot a 6ft tall cane with two large cobs on and make it disappear completely.
I'm not the first to have had small amounts pinched this year. Hasn't happened in last 5 years. Someone is not closing & locking gate when last out.

I am tempted to get a couple of outdoor wildlife cameras.

I bought one for the same reason then I thought what if they walked of with the camera I would be over a £100 out of pocket as against a few bobs worth of veg , I then thought I will spend a couple of nights in the shed armed with my very large hammer shaft then the wife stepped in told me to get real it's only a bit of veg says she but not in my mind it's not

robo wrote:I bought one for the same reason then I thought what if they walked of with the camera I would be over a £100 out of pocket as against a few bobs worth of veg , I then thought I will spend a couple of nights in the shed armed with my very large hammer shaft then the wife stepped in told me to get real it's only a bit of veg says she but not in my mind it's not

It's a principle.

Pa!

Hmmm??? Like my apple trees harvest - all at human height taken, those lower & higher still on the tree! I'd say 2 legged with your corn as 4 legged don't usually break it but can take the corn & leave plant intact!

Some years ago I had a problem with my tomatoes ,every one that turned red where left on the truss half eaten it only happened up to the third truss after that they were ok , I was working long hours at the time it was usually late on in the day when I had chance to water and inspect them one day I came home early I went down to the greenhouse only to see my three year old daughter stretching up to eat a tomato she did not pull it off the truss but nibbled it were it was she was not tall enough to reach the fourth truss

Could be rats but possibly squirrels although I've been picking my sweetcorn from the garden over the past week and as I,ve cleared a particular plant I've been pulling it up out of the ground and they're pretty firmly anchored and not at all easy to remove which suggests it may possibly have been a human at work.