Foraging badgers are ruining my garden !
 

On 5 July, 10:22, 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 ?

My old Ma had this trouble. Her solution was to feed them on the
lawn. She put out bacon rind, meat scraps, peanuts, and occasionally
special badger feed. My dad would donate his left over maggots after
going fishing. And water - she was advised againsty milk by the local
badger refuge.

Pretty soon she had 3 or 4 a night visiting, but they kept out of the
soil 'cos supplies were easier. The odd hole in the autumnal lawn,
but I reckon they wer eafter things the squirrels had already burried
there.

She lived there for around a decade, and became 'the badger lady'. At
least twice a year local primary schools would arrange visits to watch
them feeding. They quickly became immured to low level floodlighting
from upstairs.