I hate meeces to pieces.

Three photos of lettuce plants.

The first I planted yesterday as a healthy seedling and covered with a wire cage to prevent any hungry possums helping themselves to a free lunnch. The second and the third I planted three weeks, the second I also covered with a cage and the third photo I covered overnight with a pot.

What's been happening here is that freshly planted seedlings and newly emerged seedlings have been getting eaten as shown it the first two photos.

Now in the past this hasn't been a problem because it is usually possums and I cover my seedlings with a wire cage and they can't get to  them. But that hasn't been working leaving me a little perplexed and confused.

Now last night I didn't have enough cages so I covered some of my seedlings with pots. These were left untouched while the seedlings covered with wire were. Queue "Lightbulb Moment"

So now, in conclusion, my best guess it is either rats or mice are helping themselves to a free feed. Seeing as I have eliminated the possibility

for a possum to get past the wirecages and have a feed.

On top of all that it's probobal as dry as it has ever been around my part of the woods so it stands to reason they will be eating plants that I haven't had any problems with before.

For now though, at the end of each day, you'll find me outside covering all my new little seedlings with pots.