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  • What's digging up my plot!?

    Something has been digging all over my plot. Paths lifted up, one new bed in particular has had a load of the compost pushed out and the cardboard ripped up and dug up.


    Gah!

    I have put strategic paving slabs and bramble cuttings down to dissuade.

    It's interesting, something has had a regular nose around, but not to this level of diggings. Is it the time of year for foxes or something?
    Last edited by bario1; 23-09-2019, 12:40 PM.

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    Definitely foxes. I watched one dig a big hole in one of my large blueberry containers once. When I went over to have a look, there was some kind of buried fungus thing that it'd been digging out to eat.
    He-Pep!

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    • #3
      I kept finding eggs buried all round my plot, really weird. Thing is, it didn't look disturbed.
      Somebody here assured me it was definitely foxes.
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      • #4
        Badger also will dig up after something to eat,especially when dry.
        sigpicAnother nutter ,wife,mother, nan and nanan,love my growing places,seed collection and sharing,also one of these

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        • #5
          I think it's eaten one or more of my asparagus crowns too...

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          • #6
            Originally posted by MyWifesBrassicas View Post
            I kept finding eggs buried all round my plot, really weird. Thing is, it didn't look disturbed.
            Same thing happens here, as you say - it's a really weird feeling when you find them in the ground. The old'uns told me it's foxes, as well

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            • #7
              It's badgers on my plot. They haven't actually touched the beds (at least not my beds), but the paths are littered with divots where they've been digging for worms.

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              • #8
                Yep on my plot if I add any fresh compost or muck I protect it with a border fence or wire mesh over the top or they will be in digging for worms.

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                • #9
                  Originally posted by Thelma Sanders View Post
                  Same thing happens here, as you say - it's a really weird feeling when you find them in the ground. The old'uns told me it's foxes, as well
                  It was happening that often, I was beginning to think it might be a fellow allotmenteer playing a prank in the hope i put my hands through it and it explodes with a putrid pungency of a 1000 skunks
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                  • #10
                    We have a resident allotment fox who does exactly that. Rips up cardboard from the bottom of my paths, nibbles freshly planted seedlings, digs new beds. Poops on them.
                    I know what to expect and don't get too worked up about it any more.
                    Any freshly prepared beds I now leave for a couple of nights before I do any planting, to give foxy the time to do his/her worst.
                    Location: London

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                    • #11
                      Originally posted by MyWifesBrassicas View Post
                      I kept finding eggs buried all round my plot, really weird. Thing is, it didn't look disturbed.
                      Somebody here assured me it was definitely foxes.
                      What kind of eggs ?

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                      • #12
                        Bird's eggs, of all sorts, buried here...

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                        • #13
                          Originally posted by Thelma Sanders View Post
                          Bird's eggs, of all sorts, buried here...
                          What kind of wild animal buries birds eggs ?

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                          • #14
                            Originally posted by Thelma Sanders View Post
                            Bird's eggs, of all sorts, buried here...
                            I just googled this and it appears Foxes do cache eggs for eating later, see here

                            https://www.discoverwildlife.com/how...y-egg-thieves/

                            This will help identify the different birds eggs https://www.discoverwildlife.com/how...fy-birds-eggs/
                            Last edited by Can the Man; 24-09-2019, 08:11 PM.

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                            • #15
                              Originally posted by Can the Man View Post
                              What kind of eggs ?
                              they were hens eggs
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