[Pony Girl]

Help what beast is doing this to my beetroot babies?! Slug pellets don't seem to be working.

[Beetroot Queen]

If they are uncovered I would say pigeons, they will recover well mine do. 

[azubah]

I can't see any slug trails. I have never known pigeons eat beetroot, but I would not trust them. They ate our kale this year for the first time. Squirrels eat our beetroots.

[Lardman]

Are they in the GH? Looks like meece damage to me.

[RJR_38]

I would say pigeons too!

[Beetroot Queen]

Our pigeons eat everything. So many times they come down and have a go when your stood really close

[gobs]

Mice or rats or indeed squirrel. By the way, ou are putting too much of these slug pellets around. Less is more.

[boldondig]

I had a problem with sparrows once - they ate my beetroot seedlings .....

[barley]

every thing that flys crawls and slithers ewwww I recon 

[8doubles]

I had a problem with sparrows once - they ate my beetroot seedlings .....

That is my guess too !

Slugs tend to decimate one plant at a time.

I have watched a hen spadger go down a line of veg seedlings , a peck out of the lettuce, then beet then broc when i was standing four feet away. 

[Yorkie]

I thought it was a bird - sparrows don't half attack my peas!

[barley]

I thought it was a bird - sparrows don't half attack my peas!

mine to yorkie - and broad beans - net both now

[surbie100]

I'd vote for sparrows too. I've watched them taking wadges of beetroot leaves, spinach and perpetual spinach. as well as the broadies while they are youngish. They like their greens!

[Pony Girl]

Aha! Well we've got a big colony of sparrows plus Bob the resident wood pigeon and his mates so I guess that's my answer! They are outside on bench during day and GH at night?

Will I need to net all my crops when I plant them out?

My dad said I use too many pellets but I didn't believe him! Thanks for the tip. :-)

[Pony Girl]

Sorry that was a statement not a question regarding the beets location!