On 5 July, 22:34, Mark wrote:


I have badgers in my woods adjoining a camp site, so this advice is from
personal experience.
You need to erect 2mm chain-link fencing all around your garden, 30cm at the
bottom needs to be folded outwards buried and securely fixed.
it's near on 20 years since i put this up and despite a few attempts at
digging underneath, they have never gained entry.*

I put up a secondary fence with a layer of corrugated iron in between
but having their usual route blocked hasn't deterred them. They've
got into my neighbour's neighbour's garden, dug through that fence and
into my neighbours garden and then dug between our boundary fencing
into my garden. I could hear them digging about 11pm and chased two of
them away. They must have come back later as this morning I found
dahilia tubers eaten into, lupins and peonies trampled on, spring
bulbs dug up and a whole bed of rudbeckia plants totally trashed -
there must have been 10-15 plants all of which I had grown from seed.
The ironic thing is that my garden borders a vast area of disused land
which houses an old empty bungalow. As the bungalow and land have lay
empty and neglected for approx 14 years and border a railway
embankment, the area has become a haven for wildlife. Badgers, foxes
and muntjack deer amongst others. You can imagine the battles the
locals have fought with developers who want to erect flats and houses
on the land. The council rejected several sets of plans stating that
development would have adverse effects on the biodiversity of the
area . That is gratitude for you !

uncle c