On Mon, 05 Jul 2010 16:48:30 +0200, Bill Grey
wrote:


"Uncle-C" wrote in message
...
The blighters are running amok. They live in sets on the adjoining
railway embankment and sneak into my garden from dusk onwards. I've
grown lots of plants from seed and they have tramped all over them as
well as burrowing close to my dahlias and uprooting the tubers..
Several of them have been ruined. Does anyone have any humane
deterrents to keep them away from my plant beds ?

Thanks
Uncle C

How about putting up some secondary fence within you existing bounday
fence
then leaving food of some sort in the no-man's land for them. If they
are
satisfied with that they might not trespass further.


Could be worth trying. I would first secure the existing holes in the
fence, burying concrete building block(s) behind some mesh. This will
discourage most entry attempts. If you have a number of entry points the
simplest method is a low electric fence. Having said this we put feed
(peanuts) in one place in the garden and rarely have any problems with
them digging in the shrub beds or lawns.

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rbel