Somerset,
United Kingdom 
We have something coming to our garden which is digging up tiny dwarf bean plants and eating the bean, also odd carrots. Once they are a reasonable size the plants are left alone. I also had a problem with sweet peas in a hanging basket - healthy plants pulled up and left lying on the compost. Any ideas please?
28 Jun, 2013
Answers
Some of the holes dug are quite big, and would mice climb up to a hanging basket?
28 Jun, 2013
Well mice do climb, could also be squirrels.
28 Jun, 2013
Do you have ground squirrels in the UK?
28 Jun, 2013
No Tugb. we don't - at least I've never heard of them in the UK.
29 Jun, 2013
We have been in this house for 20 years, there have always been squirrels but never this sort of damage. The holes look badger size - we have had problems with them before - but do they eat beans and carrots?
29 Jun, 2013
Badgers will eat anything with a sugar or salt content. They love peanuts. Could well be, but climbing up to the hanging baskets? Probably not. I would suggest squirrels
29 Jun, 2013
I too think it would be a challenge for a badger to climb up to a hanging basket. If you had badgers you would know as they leave their dung very visibly in a scoop in the ground.
29 Jun, 2013
Not seen any badger dung, I think we are running out of ideas. Could the hanging basket problem be magpies - we have had them nesting for years but never that problem before
29 Jun, 2013
I'm sticking with squirrels...
29 Jun, 2013
Rabbits?
Groundhogs?
Sigh...I'm grasping at straws. :/
29 Jun, 2013
No Groundhogs in the UK Tugb. - Gardenerswife this is pretty average squirrel behaviour!
29 Jun, 2013
Live and learn. Thank you, MG! : )
29 Jun, 2013
Thanks everyone for your suggestions, I think we will settle on squirrels. This morning there was no further damage, so maybe the plants are getting too big for their taste.
30 Jun, 2013
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