tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3840827850297141825.post8817876250695436309..comments2024-03-26T17:53:49.471+00:00Comments on Mark's Veg Plot: Those b****y Foxes again!Mark Willishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04558305122821209520noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3840827850297141825.post-79372862918452757982020-05-02T14:48:09.556+01:002020-05-02T14:48:09.556+01:00I’ve got foxes digging up my vegetable trug. They’...I’ve got foxes digging up my vegetable trug. They’re pulling up everything except my strawberry plants. Could there even be worms in a trug? How? Hankypantshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04079669516659679499noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3840827850297141825.post-18583826975007034672019-03-04T14:26:27.837+00:002019-03-04T14:26:27.837+00:00Any update on your fox troubles, Mark old bean?
I...Any update on your fox troubles, Mark old bean?<br /><br />I'm in Central London, UK and urban fox problem is rife.<br />Digging to bury food is something I hadn't considered and might explain why the foxes in my front and back gardens dig where I know there are no bulbs or owt of interest.<br /><br />Do you just carry on gardening and re-fill the holes they make?<br /><br />They do seem to be determined / fixated when they start trying to dig under my fence. They get into a proper frenzy, biting at the fence panels whilst ferociously digging. I go out and spray them with stale man-pee which sees them off but annoyingly, as soon as they are up on the wall they stop and look back waiting to see what my next move will be.<br /><br />I've read that moving them or doing them in doesn't help as another lot will simply move in on their patch.<br /><br />I also tried the prickly plastic grids but they just tiptoe across it.<br /><br />What about feeding them -could that distract them from any subterranean morsels?<br /><br />Pale Paul<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3840827850297141825.post-41467355429331950862012-11-05T23:24:41.788+00:002012-11-05T23:24:41.788+00:00Those foxes would try the patience of a saint...so...Those foxes would try the patience of a saint...so well done St. Mark!<br />I'm with you on the photo opportunity front...doesn't matter as long as you get your shot! <br />Have a great week and hopefully the foxes will decide veggies aren't for them...but then you do grow exceedingly good veg! ;D<br />Neesiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08629847485174945501noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3840827850297141825.post-50195837154232274832012-11-05T11:25:21.665+00:002012-11-05T11:25:21.665+00:00We have the same situation with badgers if you blo...We have the same situation with badgers if you block up their run they just dig further along - we have tried for years to stop them all to no avail. They must have been hungry to eat red cabbage though.elaine https://www.blogger.com/profile/17075935631756457901noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3840827850297141825.post-91574343450746826422012-11-05T11:21:54.570+00:002012-11-05T11:21:54.570+00:00Any opportunity to live trap and relocate the crit...Any opportunity to live trap and relocate the critters?Davidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14490964982321159910noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3840827850297141825.post-36254910939617073042012-11-05T08:50:09.406+00:002012-11-05T08:50:09.406+00:00Annoying! Have you talked to your neighbour about...Annoying! Have you talked to your neighbour about it? I have a deep seated hartred of foxes which killed any number of my pet chooks and occasionally our baby lambs when I was growing up. I'd be even more annoyed with them if they dug up my garden as well....Lizhttp://www.suburbantomato.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3840827850297141825.post-75123280542624951412012-11-05T04:19:48.180+00:002012-11-05T04:19:48.180+00:00Sorry Mark but your post made me laugh! The vision...Sorry Mark but your post made me laugh! The vision of you hurtling around your garden in the rain trying to get a pic of a chewed up cabbage sort of dispelled any images of foxes!!!! I'm truly sorry about the damage Mr Sly inflicted on your garden but I'm with Jane on this one I'm afraid!!! lol xxxAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02001869157864904557noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3840827850297141825.post-52187961994447067992012-11-05T00:23:25.890+00:002012-11-05T00:23:25.890+00:00Yes as Dauphne suggests...my dog also loves anythi...Yes as Dauphne suggests...my dog also loves anything in the brassica family. Have been feeding him baby Brussels sprouts the last few days as the bean tepees are now down. <br /><br />So... thinking foxes would like cabbage as well. <br /><br />Sorry to read about the damage though, aggravating I can imagine!! Maybe a neighbour meeting to make a fox highway so they can get through the way they have done for eons.Gardeningbrenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10709940044197929905noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3840827850297141825.post-67035576233005700152012-11-04T22:40:50.147+00:002012-11-04T22:40:50.147+00:00That's wierd, the foxes here don't dig (th...That's wierd, the foxes here don't dig (the cats do) they tend to jump over the fences (6ft) and manage it very easily. Although I do have to confess they dig holes in my plant pots to bury food, I have found dog chews and a pie once.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3840827850297141825.post-6920631842692930062012-11-04T18:41:25.339+00:002012-11-04T18:41:25.339+00:00I suppose you've tried explaining to your neig...I suppose you've tried explaining to your neighbours how foxes work. I guess the only way to try and stop them is to sink something into the soil so that when the foxes try to excavate they come across a blockage.Sue Garretthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08164518448098182276noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3840827850297141825.post-64972277683671271892012-11-04T17:52:48.826+00:002012-11-04T17:52:48.826+00:00Well, I would have been mad too and would probably...Well, I would have been mad too and would probably be like your neighbor, lol. Sorry you lost a few plants but I guess there is nothing to do about it. becky3086https://www.blogger.com/profile/01026872543168452124noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3840827850297141825.post-70288992121898638702012-11-04T17:33:38.979+00:002012-11-04T17:33:38.979+00:00Well dogs and wolfs are omnivores, not quite the c...Well dogs and wolfs are omnivores, not quite the carnivores that most people think they are. I would think foxes are the same. My last dog loved cabbage. If it were here though I'd guess groundhog from the massive damage but it is possible it is a fox. My worst pest here seems to be the cats nowadays. They just want to find a place to go to the bathroom, but that means digging up seedlings. We did have a skunk go through last month that ripped up the raspberry bed looking for slugs and worms. Luckily it was just rototilling the soil and not actually digging up the roots.Daphne Gouldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17305049560953735881noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3840827850297141825.post-17065399741815765422012-11-04T16:24:31.361+00:002012-11-04T16:24:31.361+00:00Wow what a lot of damage they cause, and I get all...Wow what a lot of damage they cause, and I get all ticked off when the squirrels with their teeny little paws dig little holes looking for peanuts they seem to think I have buried just for them!Dawnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14873738272799176944noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3840827850297141825.post-11172095927368516912012-11-04T16:21:57.465+00:002012-11-04T16:21:57.465+00:00Well done Mark counted to ten and took a lovely ph...Well done Mark counted to ten and took a lovely photo of a Blueberry bushDavid Fordhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02276760687239662781noreply@blogger.com