If your seedlings are cut to the nub and gone without a trace, you might have a deer problem. Or, you might have cutworms.
I lost a few of my seedlings, which prompted me to put up fencing around my p-patch. The next day, a few more plants were gone.
I found a remedy which seems to be working…and that is placing two toothpicks 1/4 inch from the stems of the seedlings. Apparently, this provides just enough resistance so that the cutworms cannot wrap themselves around the plants and break the stems. Popsicle sticks work too.
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