Badgers, rabbits and foxes

MartinGardener

Badgers are good climbers and will happily kill chickens. Foxes clinb better than cats and will nibble your veg!


Both can dig for England!


Challenging!

unrecordings

unrecordings wrote: »

I posted a picture of my cane arrangement in another thread the outer canes are stout & pushed in deep. The inner canes are thinner/taller to put off pigeons & footballs - then there are fillers for density.The trellis is laid flat - it puts off most diggers - The badgers round here punch holes in the fence - and seem to enjoy the mulch I put round some bushes & trees last year -there very much seems to be a set (sett ?) a couple of metres from the bottom of the garden. No rabbits round here, they apparently died out a decade or so ago

Here's that photo I promised - my system might be a little OTT for most, but seems to work when I don't skimp on the spacing. I use bought bamboo cane for the sturdy stuff, less sturdy stuff is harvested from my own little patch (& dried before use), and I also use last years raspberry canes as the fillers. Each season sees the canes rotated, with the rotten stuff going in the compost and new canes added. Over on the right you can see how I'm using trellis laid flat - that's just a quick cat/badger proofing solution, but also works really well laid on top of my 36" raised beds.

baggins11

OMG unrecordings you were not kidding!

That would frighten me if I saw it and didn't know why - looks a bit 'crazy allotment man'. It obviously works though. And I couldn't picture the trellis before when you mentioned it but that also looks like it would be very effective.

I opted for stock fencing covered with chicken wire in the end so hopefully I won't need a plan B but I know what to do if it goes horribly wrong.

unrecordings

I guess I may have a little too much time on my hands - but it keeps me busy. Clearly the hoops are the more sensible solution, so long as you remember to weigh down the end flaps with some nice rocks

MartinGardener

baggins11 wrote: »

OMG unrecordings you were not kidding!

That would frighten me if I saw it and didn't know why - looks a bit 'crazy allotment man'. It obviously works though. And I couldn't picture the trellis before when you mentioned it but that also looks like it would be very effective.

I opted for stock fencing covered with chicken wire in the end so hopefully I won't need a plan B but I know what to do if it goes horribly wrong.

Unfortunately, as I'm sure you'vre already found out, a badger will just barge through your sticks like it would through thick undergrowth.


Try and see where they're getting onto the land and block them if it's possible.


Obviously NEVER interfere with a badger sett. It's illegal.