Scotch bonnet chilli's finely chopped and scattered around your lawn should stop badgers digging.One sniff of those and away they go.We had the same problem for years.....this method did the trick for us.Badger free.
I don't have badgers Sylvia - but I think I'll remember your tip - I suspect it might work as a harmless deterrent for quite a few pesky creatures. Might even try it down the vole / mice holes which have suddenly cropped up in my raised veggie beds!
Heaven is ... sitting in the garden with a G&T and a cat while watching the sun go down
We were woken last night at 2am by a badger and when my husband went to investigate it turned out he was digging up a bumble bee nest. So frustrating as we've been trying to do our bit to help the bees out!
Just wondering if you think it's ok to fill in the hole he dug? it's right at the top of our garden steps so not exactly inconspicuous!
Chili sauce - the really fiery stuff - works on rats. We lived in a rented semi basement flat once and a rat had decided to come in under the floorboards and live with us. Every night it scraped a bigger and bigger hole in our skirting board. Landlord not interested. Chili sauce applied to the edges of the hole - wait - scrape, scrape....... Nothing ever again.
I live near open fields, there is a lane at the bottom of my garden which I have a fence with concrete boards under the panels. I have a big problem with badgers. The badgers here jump a 6 foot wooden fence which has a wire fence on the back, they dig under the concrete boards & my lawn is got loads of holes from digging, they broke fence panels between my next door neighbours & me. they have jump the gate which has wire on the back of it. I have two cats and I need something to stop the badgers coming in and the cats will be ok. don't get me wrong, the badgers look lovely animals but I am feed up of them detroying my garden, so is my neighbiurs
Ha, Ha, Ha, don't you know, everybody loves badgers, except those nasty selfish farmers who object to their herds of cows being destroyed. And the hedgehogs, of course.
Badgers attacked my compost heap earlier in the year...... Perfect opportunity to empty it onto the beds and relocate the compost heap!!! Badgers do love love love peanuts and yes they are expensive... I used to save stale bread and give them peanut butter sarnis!!
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Scotch bonnet chilli's finely chopped and scattered around your lawn should stop badgers digging.One sniff of those and away they go.We had the same problem for years.....this method did the trick for us.Badger free.
I don't have badgers Sylvia - but I think I'll remember your tip - I suspect it might work as a harmless deterrent for quite a few pesky creatures. Might even try it down the vole / mice holes which have suddenly cropped up in my raised veggie beds!
We were woken last night at 2am by a badger and when my husband went to investigate it turned out he was digging up a bumble bee nest. So frustrating as we've been trying to do our bit to help the bees out!
Just wondering if you think it's ok to fill in the hole he dug? it's right at the top of our garden steps so not exactly inconspicuous!
Chili sauce - the really fiery stuff - works on rats. We lived in a rented semi basement flat once and a rat had decided to come in under the floorboards and live with us. Every night it scraped a bigger and bigger hole in our skirting board. Landlord not interested. Chili sauce applied to the edges of the hole - wait - scrape, scrape....... Nothing ever again.
I live near open fields, there is a lane at the bottom of my garden which I have a fence with concrete boards under the panels. I have a big problem with badgers. The badgers here jump a 6 foot wooden fence which has a wire fence on the back, they dig under the concrete boards & my lawn is got loads of holes from digging, they broke fence panels between my next door neighbours & me. they have jump the gate which has wire on the back of it. I have two cats and I need something to stop the badgers coming in and the cats will be ok. don't get me wrong, the badgers look lovely animals but I am feed up of them detroying my garden, so is my neighbiurs
Wait for DEFRA to come and give you a hand.
Ha, Ha, Ha, don't you know, everybody loves badgers, except those nasty selfish farmers who object to their herds of cows being destroyed. And the hedgehogs, of course.
Badgers attacked my compost heap earlier in the year...... Perfect opportunity to empty it onto the beds and relocate the compost heap!!! Badgers do love love love peanuts and yes they are expensive... I used to save stale bread and give them peanut butter sarnis!!
It is very foolish to feed foxes or badgers. They are wild animals and should not be encouraged to look to humans for food.