Allotment Gardening Advice Help Chat
Growing => Grow Your Own => Topic started by: dustcartkev on March 22, 2015, 16:10
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hi all, the foxes keep digging holes all over my plot, i thought it was cats but the chap that lives next to my plot have seen them at it. someone said leave them as they will get fed up, i dont think so as i have had this problem for ages, really getting fed up with this now as i dont know what to do. please help >:( :(
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Do you use Fish blood and bone? I had to stop using it because foxes were digging my plot up trying to find buried goodies.
Some people say they dig the same if you use chicken manure pellets, but I use them and the foxes don't dig for them on my plot. Touches wood!
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I had to stop using FBB years ago because of foxes, and had some trouble using dried chicken poo too, although I suspect that was the cubs who had yet to learn it tasted like you-know-what. ;)
I've even had problems with my latest tub of Growmore, which is supposed to be completely inorganic yet unaccountably smells of, yes, chicken poo!
Since last year I've had badgers digging holes too! :ohmy:
Both seem to be deterred effectively by netting thrown over the areas in question, at least until the pong has disappeared.
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i get the fox if i use chicken pellet manure
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Hi,
I have the same trouble with foxes too wasn't sure what was doing it. It hasn't been quite as bad lately, I was told by an old boy plot holder to fill up enough milk containers with wee (male is best) and put it once or twice twice a week if it rains around the outside of your plot boundaries to mark your territory.
I've been doing it for a month now, it's gone down from about 10 holes a week to 2 or 3 I'm trying it around the worse areas to see if it helps more.
Hope this may be of some help.
Dan
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thanks for all advice, i dont use blood fish and bone meal, and not chicken pallets. so dont know why the little sods keep digging i will give the wee a go though, so just wee in the cartons and put them all around my plot. many thanks as i am so fed up with all my veg getting dug up day after day. :(
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I am touching wood as I type this, but I sling handfuls of chilli powder down which seems to work.
I have been putting FBB in with the snowdrops as I replant and then I put large handfuls of chilli down and so far, so good.
Touches wood again.
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Yep just straight in the bottle :)
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thats great, better get some beer down my neck then i can wee for England, thanks again
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Not sure if its foxes went to the allotment today found one of my strawberry's gone from my bed just a hole there and the other five not touched, between the beds I found three more holes.
I don't use anything on my beds only horse manure, and between my beds the path is just shavings of woos and pine
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Foxes on our site dig my beds and paths looking for worms and grubs. Sometimes a plant that was in the way completely disappears. No idea what they do with them - particularly things like kolrabi!
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Foxes dug up some of my newly-planted seed potatoes a few years ago (the dried chicken poo problem again plus no netting) - I found some of them about 20 feet away, although I suspect they were propelled rather than carried there!
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yep that is what i get all the time. and is so frustrating i have tried netting but they just pull it down. >:(
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I wonder whether putting a bowl of dried chicken poo out near the area that's been fertilised might help them work out what to avoid wasting time digging up? (they are supposed to be smart creatures after all!) :unsure:
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Basil and his mates jump on the netting hoops, I have started grating really cheap smelly soap and putting it round the paths and now I'm also using coffee grounds a lit they seem a little put off and have not been as active.
If I try using BFB or Chicken pellets they just go mad, so I'm going to add the Coffee grounds and soap at the same time hopefully to confuse their little noses.
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I spotted the :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad:ing thing trying to dig up my new snowdrop bed last night despite putting chilli powder down. The potency had obviously worn off.
So there I was, in me dressing gown, at 10 pm, freezing cold chasing the b@@@er orf, covering me snowdrops with up-turned mushroom boxes and then chucking more chilli powder down.
It finally worked after the fifth time I went and chased it round the garden and after I whacked the chilli powder down.
I really, really didn't want the snowdrop labels slung round the garden. Thinking about it I should have made a planting plan.
It looked like a war zone this morning. :mad: >:( :mad:
It really is frustrating.
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Here is Basil savaging in the bin outside the allotment and the Basil my darling daughter bought me :nowink:
And my sprout enclosure after 3 of the little darlings used it as a trampoline
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How thoroughly demoralising, Cadalot.
OH has just legged it after the fox and come back using foul and profane language. Don't know what else we can do to stop the @@@@er wrecking the garden.
We spent out on prikka strips to go on top of the 6 foot fences and they just scramble over them with no effect. :( :(
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I caught Basil down the side of my shed, thinking that's it his cornered but a leap and bound off my upturned wheelbarrow and stacked items, and he was on top of the 8ft high wall looking down at me, then he walked as cool as you like along and disappeared on the other side.
I had to admire his agility, it was like watching Spiderman in action. :nowink:
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We do have the occasional fox in the fields here but they have not (so far) done any damage in our garden - all I've had are pigeons, and a spate of rabbit damage but only for one year. Whether it's my three cats that keep foxes away I have no idea, but feel for you both after all your hard work.
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Thanks Goosegirl. I think I would be better off in the country rather than the town, sometimes.
Or rather we are on the edge of Epping Forest, and we are over run with town foxes. They are absolutely fearless. There were a group of ten by the opening to the forest a year ago.
And the people who are feeding them are helping them increase.
Although I heard today of someone who had been encouraging them into the garden by leaving milk out. The fox got bolder until one day in the summer when the doors were open it came into the house.
The lady found it in her living room she panicked, the fox panicked, running round the room and up the curtains defecating and urinating as it went. When the fox was finally chased out they were left with the whole house smelling of fox, fox pee and poo.
I don't think she will be feeding them again.
Our neighbour had one set up home in their loft. They were not chuffed.