Dug around where their tunnels were, flooded it with a hose pipe (my soil is sandy over clay, I wanted it muddy and damp for them, and knew it wouldn't be enough to drown them), stuffed pokey hair from the boys haircuts down the hole, got snake skins and snake poo from a neighbor and put that around the holes, and generally waged a war of irritations against them. They've probably just moved to the neighbors yard, and will be back when crops appear.. but there hasn't been sign of them in several weeks now.
It was a full on war. They ate my beetroot, carrots, and nipped out most pea plant stems last summer. Over winter they ate half my blackberry cane roots and most of my strawberry plants.
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.