I remember reading something in the telegraph, a while ago, that there are still parts of the UK that are contaminated by radiation from the Chernobyl disaster. If I remember rightly the areas were in Wales, Scotland and Cumbria.
I've noticed a hole into my greenhouse from under the fence of my neighbours they have had hedgehogs in their garden could this be what's coming into my greenhouse?
Thank you for your quick replies...I thought as much but when I gave my greenhouse a good clear out recently there was a lot of empty snail shells. I've then blocked the hole but it's there again but nothing has been eating like my potato tubers. So I wasn't to sure.
Looks like a rat hole. They are very clever and when something new is put near where they are running will avoid the new"thing" for a couple of weeks. I had to leave traps down for two or three weeks before catching anything.
My neighbours have ducks and chickens so I am always finding excavations in the dry stone walls and banks around my garden. Have given up trying to control them, I just hammer a large stone into the entrance, they are very persistent and industrious though, just dig a new hole somewhere else. The trouble is this does eventually lead to the collapse of the walls and banks as they create extensive tunnel systems. Cannot help but admire their determination
Help please! I too have a problem with small holes appearing in my raised veg bed. There isn't only one but quite a few at a time. I have filled them all in and they are back again the next day. Any ideas what they can be ? voles/moles or anything else and how can I deal with them? Nothing getting in from above as they are hooped and butterfly netted.
By the amount of displaced soil that’s a rat, we put poison down the hole with a slate on the top you'll need to put more down in a day or two. Rats are not usually solitary animals.
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
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I remember reading something in the telegraph, a while ago, that there are still parts of the UK that are contaminated by radiation from the Chernobyl disaster. If I remember rightly the areas were in Wales, Scotland and Cumbria.
Thanks for all the comments. Burrow was back again this morning. I've taken the hosepipe to it this evening so whatever it is, I hope it can swim.
Will update as and when
Rats can swim
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I've noticed a hole into my greenhouse from under the fence of my neighbours they have had hedgehogs in their garden could this be what's coming into my greenhouse?
Hedgehogs don't burrow ..................... rats do
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
If the hole does go somewhere, then as DM suggests, a humane trap should give you the answer.
Thank you for your quick replies...I thought as much but when I gave my greenhouse a good clear out recently there was a lot of empty snail shells. I've then blocked the hole but it's there again but nothing has been eating like my potato tubers. So I wasn't to sure.
Looks like a rat hole. They are very clever and when something new is put near where they are running will avoid the new"thing" for a couple of weeks. I had to leave traps down for two or three weeks before catching anything.
My neighbours have ducks and chickens so I am always finding excavations in the dry stone walls and banks around my garden. Have given up trying to control them, I just hammer a large stone into the entrance, they are very persistent and industrious though, just dig a new hole somewhere else. The trouble is this does eventually lead to the collapse of the walls and banks as they create extensive tunnel systems. Cannot help but admire their determination