[Jake]

One of my previously healthy pea plants has been nibbled or attacked by something at the base making it all floppy although still very green and alive.

Help! please, I must protect my peas.

I'm looking in The Vegetable and Herb Expert but nothing in there like this. I even went out after dark last night and didn't see anything on them. (I was atually looking for brown beetles.

Any ideas would be most welcome. :?

[slow_worm]

Slugs?
Always put pellets with young seedlings

[Jake]

Oh, I thought I would have seen the slugs at dusk or dawn. I have some pellets and will probably use them.

[Smudge]

I'm just about to put my seeding peas in today, i have little plastic cups to protect them until they are a bit bigger. Then if all good may upgrade to milk cartons (4 pinter) with a wooden steak inside. I also use this stuff called slug stoppa  (natural )which is basically tough grit, which is absorbent, to suck the little * dry. When the plants are bigger i surround them in a circle of  slug stoppa, then put a beer trap in the middle to catch the slugs hatched from the eggs in the circle.
Good luck, fresh peas are the very best thing in the whole world. it is well worth the effort!

[Jake]

I'm just about to put my seeding peas in today, i have little plastic cups to protect them until they are a bit bigger. Then if all good may upgrade to milk cartons (4 pinter) with a wooden steak inside. I also use this stuff called slug stoppa  (natural )which is basically tough grit, which is absorbent, to suck the little * dry. When the plants are bigger i surround them in a circle of  slug stoppa, then put a beer trap in the middle to catch the slugs hatched from the eggs in the circle.
Good luck, fresh peas are the very best thing in the whole world. it is well worth the effort!

I'll try all that.