Foxes?

newlywed

We live in a city and do have quite a number of foxes roaming about the residential areas.

However, with a raised vegetable bed, would foxes only target one plant? Our tomato plants always seem to be the ones that get it.... nothing else gets damaged other than seedlings. Why would they just dig up the one type of plant every time they visit? 

Chilli powder only seems to prevent them for one day. Vinegar does nothing. Any other deterrent suggestions if it is a fox?

And yes I am cynical as it’s a shared garden ....

-taff

did you put any blood fish and bone on them?

Apodemus

I wonder if it is a territory-marking thing?   I think if I was a Fox I would consider a raised bed to be a significant enough feature to need marking.  Is the damage at a corner?

newlywed

-taff said:

did you put any blood fish and bone on them?

No, not at all.

newlywed

Apodemus said:

I wonder if it is a territory-marking thing?   I think if I was a Fox I would consider a raised bed to be a significant enough feature to need marking.  Is the damage at a corner?

Sometimes its at the back corner against the wall that’s dug up.  This time about a third of the way along, at the back wall again. Never at the front though?  And the courgette plant at the front is never touched either.


mind you, thinking again, there is one corner at the front of the bed where it meets the lawn/grass that they seem to keep trying to dig (but the soil is shallow and rubbish quality so they are probably just getting the stone and rubble)

youngie

if you think it is territory marking try putting some male urine in the same spot some people say this works my friend has tried this with reasonable results needs to be redone after rain