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

On Mon, 5 Jul 2010 02:22:12 -0700 (PDT), Uncle-C
wrote:

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 do they get in?
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On 5 July, 10:27, mogga wrote:


How do they get in?
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There are gaps in the wire fencing which they somehow widened so they
can squeeze through and they've also dug underneath the fence. The
problem is getting worse as they have dug through the the fence which
I have with the neighbours and are begining cause havoc in his flower
beds and vegetable patch. We are both going spare each morning when
we inspect the damage from the overnight histrionics.

Forgot to add that someone did mention pouring a long trail of
disinfectant along the line of the fence as the smell puts them off ?
The thing is I don't want to do them any harm as its a parent badger
with several cubs. There are about six of them in total.

"Uncle-C" wrote in message
...
Forgot to add that someone did mention pouring a long trail of
disinfectant along the line of the fence as the smell puts them off ?
The thing is I don't want to do them any harm as its a parent badger
with several cubs. There are about six of them in total.

Indded you need to be carefuull with this sort of method. A neighbour once
poured industial thinners on some waste ground he wanted to clear.
Unfortuneately our cat which had wandered over his "treated patch" was
suckling three kittens at the time. All three kittens died from smoe sort oc
chest (breathing_ problme. Un -beknown to us the cat's fur was soaked in
thinners and the kittens inhaled too much thinner fumes and subsequently
died.

Bill

"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.

Bill

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.

--
rbel

Uncle-C wrote:

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

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.*
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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

"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 ?


Electric fence. Mesh type.
From all good farm suppliers.
Tina