Kitchen Garden Forum

Hi

I started my Goji Berry's plants off in pots and they were growing strongly. I have now transplanted them onto the veg patch in the garden and something is eating them! Not just the leaves which could be slugs or snails but the leaves and the woody stems. When they were in a pot they were fine, in the ground they are being eaten off.

I am going to put them back in pots but does anyone have any idea what might be eating them?

Kate

Hi Allotmentkate,
Is it possible that a Muntjac is responsible for your dilemma. Muntjac being so small can eat normally up to 3ft without rising on back legs but where fruit is concerned they will even jump. If you make the area around the plants boggy one night just at dusk and see what foot marks you have there in the morning.
JB.

Thank Johnboy, I thought of that, if it had been the allotment then I would have thought so as we have muntjack there, but not in the garden, in a suburb of town.
Thought it might be cats but they would leave the wood abit soggy and chewed.
However I will soak the ground and see what we see, it might show something.
Kate