Could a hedgehogs live in just 1 garden?

myclayjungle · September 2023

We are renovating with fencing all around and no obvious gaps to allow a hedgehog in. Last night, we found a large one in the back garden. I'm delighted, but now wondering if its been trapped in the yard for sometime? The garden is only 1/2 acre in size, so surely it couldn't have survived on the limited bugs that weeds and log piles provides?

Waterbut · September 2023

You are supposed to cut holes in the fence according to articles in GW for them but neighbours might not be to happy especially mine.

Balgay.Hill · September 2023

Imagine you were 'desperate' for a companion of the opposite sex, and you were locked in a shed with a peep-hole, looking out on a nudist beach.

Dovefromabove · September 2023

https://www.hedgehogstreet.org/help-hedgehogs/link-your-garden/

AnniD · September 2023

Even if you only make a hole in one fence panel on one side of your garden, that is better than nothing.
Hedgehogs have an unerring instinct for finding a gap, in fact there is evidence of them finding a new "hedgehog highway" in a very short space of time after it's been created.
It's surprising just how flexible they can be, if you check around the boundary you may find evidence of digging under the fence.
If there is enough cover in your garden to provide a hedgehog with somewhere to sleep, creepy crawlies, and water in theory it could survive, but their natural instinct is to roam.
Half an acre is a pretty good sized garden

myclayjungle · September 2023

To clarify, I have no intention of just keeping it in my garden as a pet! We already have hedgehog holes in the front garden. As said, we are renovating and have temporary fencing at the back. It was left closed off, with no gaps, due to having diggers and major works being done.

KT53 · September 2023

We have concrete gravel boards below the fence all round our garden and the hedgehogs still find a way in and out somewhere. It's not practical to make a hole in those, but production of gravel boards with a hole in should be possible, if there was the demand.

Dovefromabove · September 2023

Hedgehog ‘gateways’ from Wickes

https://www.wickes.co.uk/DuraPost-Black-Hedgehog-Hole-for-Gravel-Board---150mm/p/275957

AnniD · September 2023

https://www.garden-fence-panels.co.uk/concrete-posts-bases/concrete-gravel-boards/hedgehog-friendly-concrete-base-panel-plain/?utm_source=Google Shopping&utm_campaign=welch&utm_medium=cpc&utm_term=117497&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIrcr-3KSRgQMVGtvtCh2gVgwdEAQYASABEgIx-PD_BwE

Also a big campaign was launched in July by Hedgehog Street to encourage fencing manufacturers to supply hedgehog friendly fencing. Jackson have been making them for several years.

https://www.hedgehogstreet.org/hedgehog-friendly-fencing/

KT53 · September 2023

Dovefromabove said:

Hedgehog ‘gateways’ from Wickes

https://www.wickes.co.uk/DuraPost-Black-Hedgehog-Hole-for-Gravel-Board---150mm/p/275957

Those look like plastic fence panels and plastic gravel boards. Neither of which are exactly environmentally friendly. They wouldn't be 'easy to install' if you have concrete gravel boards.

KT53 · September 2023

AnniD said:

https://www.garden-fence-panels.co.uk/concrete-posts-bases/concrete-gravel-boards/hedgehog-friendly-concrete-base-panel-plain/?utm_source=Google Shopping&utm_campaign=welch&utm_medium=cpc&utm_term=117497&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIrcr-3KSRgQMVGtvtCh2gVgwdEAQYASABEgIx-PD_BwE

Also a big campaign was launched in July by Hedgehog Street to encourage fencing manufacturers to supply hedgehog friendly fencing. Jackson have been making them for several years.

https://www.hedgehogstreet.org/hedgehog-friendly-fencing/

That's more like it, pre-cut

Good to see somebody has made them.

Could a hedgehogs live in just 1 garden?

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