Cauliflower - decimated

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    I planted out 10 cauliflower seedlings the other day, and as of this morning they are all gone. I had slug pellets around them, so I don't think it is slugs or snails, but something has got them. One of our sweetcorn was dug up again too - would mice go for cauliflowers?
     
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    Funny ol year runners only 1/2 ish germinated odd indeed so you are not on your own. Wonder if it went a bit too cold and they just damped off or the seeds went fungicidal.
     
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    Pigeons? or **** Pigeons!!
     
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      Have to net any brassicas I grow to keep the ****** ********* pigeons off them, otherwise they decimate them indeed. Its the only trouble I have with birds (on the allotment anyway).
       
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      I doubt very much that it is pigeons - unless they can get under builders debris netting. I still reckon its mice, although I cannot work out why they would eat wee cauliflower seedlings
       
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      Cutworms?
       
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        Never heard of them?
         
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        Larvae of moths that live in the soil, although it may be a bit early for them.
         
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          The dog has been going bananas around the barrels too, which suggests something is hiding - I initially thought frog but now with the decimated cauliflower and the earlier digging up of my sweet corn, I am thinking mouse
           
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          never had a dog wait for a mouse a rat yes
           
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