At least it wasn’t eaten.
I had 3 50ft rows of cowpeas last summer. On the DAY they were ready I grabbed a couple 5gal buckets and marched down to my garden. And they were eaten. GONE. With deer tracks everywhere. Apparently the deer waited till they were ripe. Just like me.
*sigh*
I commiserate; in Southern California, we planted 350’ of grean beans, and as soon as they got 3-4” tall, in ONE NIGHT, the jackrabbits ate every one of them.
Those were the skinniest jacks I’ve ever seen: I saw more than one squeeze through the mesh of 2” poultry wire.