[DD.]

I hope!

Each year the problem with badgers on our site gets worse. The past few years they have trashed everyone's sweetcorn despite the best efforts of netting to keep them out.

This year I've built the construction below in an attempt to deter them. The poles and grills I fortunately had to hand, so only paid for the mesh. I intend burying the grills that are currently laying on the soil below the surface.

Cost was about £40, but this is protecting about 100 plants and everything is reusable year on year, so ultimately hopefully the unit cost per cob will be low. If they get through this - it's more peas next year!

[mumofstig]

  and I thought I had trouble with foxes......

Good luck

[miggs]

Very impressive, good luck.

[sunshineband]

If it was good enough for the SpringWatch badgers, it should surely do the job here too 

Their fence to keep them of the scrape was similar 

[Aunt Sally]

Wow... DD. that is a beautiful thing!  Who cares about the cost... it's a work of art, it should be at the Tate Modern.

The "art buffs" would have a field day (or should that be an allotment day) descussing the meaning of "Corn Clink".   

[DD.]

If it was good enough for the SpringWatch badgers, it should surely do the job here too 

Their fence to keep them of the scrape was similar 

Yes - I saw that, I'd already intended to build this, but it did prompt me to bend the top of the wire outwards!

[cadalot]

Machine Gun Towers in the corner and connected to the national grid next me thinks 

[DD.]

connected to the national grid next me thinks 

Who says it isn't? 

[sunshineband]

If it was good enough for the SpringWatch badgers, it should surely do the job here too 

Their fence to keep them of the scrape was similar 

Yes - I saw that, I'd already intended to build this, but it did prompt me to bend the top of the wire outwards!

Yes, they are good climbers 

[Lardman]

The ones I had here weren't partial to the smell of fresh "brown liquid" I had in the shed.

[Growster...]

Marvellous Stalag, DD!

The badgers decimated everyone's sweetcorn (including ours) round here too, so now we just grow them at home, where the blighters have no chance...

(Have you got Steve McQueen's motorbike in the shed...)?

[cadalot]

Marvellous Stalag, DD!

The badgers decimated everyone's sweetcorn (including ours) round here too, so now we just grow them at home, where the blighters have no chance...

(Have you got Steve McQueen's motorbike in the shed...)?

As a child every year at Christmas My Dad and I would watch Steve McQueen trying to get over that fence and Dad would say "he may make it this year", funny he never did no matter how much support we gave 

[DD.]

(Have you got Steve McQueen's motorbike in the shed...)?

No, but my push bike's leaning up on the bench outside it. Can't seem to get the speed up, though.

[New shoot]

(Have you got Steve McQueen's motorbike in the shed...)?

No, but my push bike's leaning up on the bench outside it. Can't seem to get the speed up, though.

    

You know Mrs Digger is not going to be at all impressed to get a call when you are stuck on that fence and needing rescue 

[JayG]

Hope you've not done such a thorough job that even you can't get inside to harvest!