Beetroot

Hi,
I went down to the plot yesterday to pick, amongst other things, some beetroot.  I was surprised to find about 50cm of the row were all hollowed out.  The beetroot looked perfectly normal on top but all but the skin was completely gone.  Does this seem like a rodents work?
Chris

It didn't seem like slugs work to me.

Voles are the main culprits here - hollowed out our beetroot better than any stonemason, leaving the tops and tails, and a few perfect hollow carcasses.  they moved over to the autumn kings and perfected their chisel skills some more 

have you thought about lifting your beetroot before the winter sets in we always take our crop off the Lottie we freeze most of it and use as required

or you could store them in sand till needed

Thanks for all you replies.

Someone else on the plot mentioned we had voles a while a go, so that seems likely.  I better harvest them and the parsnips soon.

I've never had this problem before and been on the plot for six or seven years now.