Badgers ate my sweetcorn again

[DeborahSParticipant]

Any success stories out there about how to keep marauding badgers off sweetcorn and other sweet treats? Yet again badgers from a nearby set trashed all my sweetcorn just as it reached perfection. I have an allotment on a council site.

[charlesModerator]

 Sorry to hear this, they know when it is ripe and I have found badgers impossible to keep out and wonder if anyone else has ideas?

[Sahira WardMember]

Hi DeborahS

My friend had badgers digging up her lawn for worms and she decided to put food out for them. I’ll find out what she used.

[bogbeanParticipant]

I had problems with badgers and chickens some years ago, even though the chicken run was fenced with chicken wire. In the end I put up an electric fence (white tape as used for horses) about 8 inches off the ground and connected it to a battery fencer. This kept them away. I now have major problems with deer coming into the garden and I have had to put a fence (5 foot high) all round the vegetable area – last year they jumped over that, so I put electrified tape above the wire netting fence and that stopped them. In fact, you only need to actually electrify it for a few days, but leave the tape in place and that alone will put them off. In other words, you could borrow a battery fencer for a week or so,rather than buying one.

[DeborahSParticipant]

Thanks for this suggestion bogbean. In fact the one allotmenteer who didn’t lose his sweetcorn to badgers used an electric fence, so maybe I will think about giving it a go next season, before I abandon sweetcorn altogether.

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