Something is getting into my garden.
And it likes to dig holes just deep enough, from the surface, to expose the roots of my plants. I assume it then gnaws on the roots, but I was able to re-cover and hopefully salvage the couple of plants that were affected last night. It also gnaws the tops of my plants. I've had two pea plants get taken down to the soil after being about 6+ inches emerged.
I have 2-foot tall chicken wire all the way around my garden, but it has gaps that are probably big enough for field mice or similar rodents to get in. I don't think this is birds, but they can certainly get in as well.
My dog doesn't seem to be helping at all.
Solutions? Anyone else have this problem?
I'm thinking of augmenting the chicken wire with a finer-sized mesh, but I suspect that the critter is likely to just chew through it.
ETA: no prints in the soil at all. Whatever it is, it ain't my dog. Probably isn't cats, either, since they'd have to jump over a 2 foot fence without disturbing the soil. Gotta be tiny, and quiet. I considered that it might be the little geckos that climb around on my cinder block property wall, digging around for bugs in the soft soil... but that doesn't explain the eating of the plants.
