Vegetable garden plants uprooted

Question

HELP!! Just started – our vegetable garden has some kind of a pest that’s uprooting the plants. They don’t appear to be eating the roots or leaves, just digging them up. We have a deer fence around the garden so we know it’s no large animal. Thank you very much for your help!

Answer 1

You don’t say where you’re located, so this suggestion may not apply, but armadillos would do that. They dig up everything looking for grubs, and they can dig under a deer fence or even crawl through the openings if large enough.