young tomato seedlings eaten

grew some toms on window still they were two leaf stage bout inch high put them in green house so they did not go leggy looked this morning three of them have there leaves missing just the stem left no slug trails, just small leave gone , any ideas anybody plz

 

Mice? A few years ago I went into the GH one morning and found a few like that. Next morning they were all snipped off, and I found the leaves in a neat pile in a corner.

 

mice eh this calls for drastic action

 

That's why I don't put mine out there until they're big plants.
Slugs will certainly eat them, but they eat them - they don't do any housework.
Mice would, and they certainly do that 'tidying up' scenario that @BobTG describes.
The ones in my garden just access the bird feeders - day or night, for the food in there.

 

Check around/beneath pots for woodlice, they seem to enjoy seedlings of many flavours: peppers, zinnias, tomatoes etc

 

Snails do mine in. Only use our very small green house now for storing things in.

 

yes few woodlice in green house just toms they scoffed nowt else

 

Woodlice are rarely the guilty party - they just tuck in when one of the big boys creates a hole in the tomato/cucumber/strawberry flesh and then runs away.

I have just seen one snail/slug solution online - and I know those very words should provoke instant derision - which might just work. Over the greenhouse benches and trays on which trays of seedlings rested, the contributor put below the trays old, fluffy towels. The claim was that molluscs don’t like venturing over towelling fabric and I thought there might just be some truth there.

 

But we are not discussing predation of ripening crops in this topic, rather the eating of leaf edges of seedlings, which I have found with the presence of small woodlice.
I think that the relatively new incidence is due to the attractiveness of decaying wood material which we have introduced with 'new formula ' composts based upon woodfibres.

 

I think @BenCotto is just explaining that it's unlikely to be woodlice eating the plants, because it's more likely to be the frutis they'd go for.
The fact that the plants are being left in a corner suggests mice. There was a lovely video going around a while ago, showing a mouse doing some serious housekeeping in a shed. The chap couldn't understand why all sorts of stuff was being moved, so he set up a camera. It was brilliant.

 

I don't get many woodlice in my greenhouse, I tend to keep things dry in there, at this time of year, which I think helps; get more of them in summer when the greenhouse is in tomato growing mode with capillary matting and large pots that are watered nearly everyday.
Outside is a different matter under every pot and tray are woodlice, numbers tend to drop off over summer.

 

Mice, or maybe birds, dug up every single onion set in the bed a few years ago. They just left them lying there.

I put all of my seedlings on a table in the polytunnel. I don’t know if mice could climb up the legs, but they haven’t in about 17 years.

Also slugs don’t seem to bother with the table either any more, probably because I’m stricter about making sure the whole area is bone dry by nightfall.

 

My dad had some peas on the bench in his garage go missing and I found some of them the other day had been planted into one of his strawberry pots in the greenhouse. It appears the mice had moved them and had more success growing them than he did.

 

yup just at the two leaf stage other were ok i put them in green house because if left on window sill they go leggy