The blasted mice keep eating my broad beans. It doesn't seem to matter whether I start them off in modules in the greenhouse or plant the seeds direct. As soon as the shoots appear, the mice descend on them, chew off the shoot and nibble the bean underneath. Is there a reliable deterrent, other than a cat that is?
By the way, I'm guessing at mice being the culprits based on the size of the nibble marks on the beans. Can't think what else might bite of the shoots and nibble the seed-bean underneath