Well, despite our efforts, vermin have attacked the garden. My Blue Lake pole beans started to wilt, then the cucumbers next to them. Something was going right down the row. Rob suggested something was attacking the roots. I had nightmares all night that something had sucked all of my plants underground and my garden was left bare. I woke up this morning to find that one of my cilantro plants had indeed been sucked underground. Nightmare! Not a shred of the plant remained. I had stopped watering both of the cilantro plants because they had already bolted and I wanted to let the seeds spread. There were two small holes next to where the plant used to be. We tried to drown the little critters out, but to no avail. I will get out my animal tracking book to identify exactly what kind of vermin we have. Any ideas on a nonviolent way to get rid of them? Rob’s idea is a shovel. He is an animal!