[b54red]

Originally Posted by bower

Happy new year to you B54red. Good to hear you've got something from the garden (lemons and lettuce, a match made in heaven if you like a lemony dressing).
I've had whole batches of seedlings 'disappear' by both slugs and voles, if the time/weather and place happens to be right. Row cover helps, as long as they can't get underneath it. From past experience the slugs are especially fond of the carrot family, to the extreme, while the past summer voles ate every other seedling in my garden except for carrots. Peas, brassicas, lettuce, destroyed as little seedlings, then they came for the grains when they were ripe, but never touched a carrot all summer.

You need to get some miniature dachshunds and your vole problems will disappear. Of course you may find dead voles on your stoop in the mornings and there could be some digging problems for a while til they thin out the voles.

Bill