Thank you everybody for you help i have tried chicken wire on soil however they just do it on the top without digging
Goldstars, don't just lay it on top - do as I do and make a cloche shape or tunnel out of it , block the ends with boards and peg it down with tent pegs, they can't get in and neither than the birds who sometimes pull out or eat your seedlings.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I was about to say the same as Dove. I've currently got some unplanted areas of compost in a raised bed and I put the wire mesh shelves from my little growhouse across the bigger spaces and stuck some of my pots of bulbs and young plants into the other bits. The mesh is several inches above the soil though. Jaggy branches work well too - I often use prunings from Berberis or Pyracantha.
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
I find bonemeal sprinkled on the soil deters them, well it does in my garden. I've tried lots of things but this is the only one that works for me. It doesn't harm wildlife and isn't bad for the garden.
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Goldstars, don't just lay it on top - do as I do and make a cloche shape or tunnel out of it , block the ends with boards and peg it down with tent pegs, they can't get in and neither than the birds who sometimes pull out or eat your seedlings.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I was about to say the same as Dove. I've currently got some unplanted areas of compost in a raised bed and I put the wire mesh shelves from my little growhouse across the bigger spaces and stuck some of my pots of bulbs and young plants into the other bits. The mesh is several inches above the soil though. Jaggy branches work well too - I often use prunings from Berberis or Pyracantha.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Goldstar says "garden loos like a building site". An unfortunate typo to say the least
I find bonemeal sprinkled on the soil deters them, well it does in my garden. I've tried lots of things but this is the only one that works for me. It doesn't harm wildlife and isn't bad for the garden.