Kitchen Garden Forum

Planted out cabbage in jiffy pots, one keeps getting dug up by I suspect a fox, its the same pot each time, if he keeps to the same pot, I can put up with that.It has been suggested by a fellow plot-holder that I sprinkle bone-meal around the plant, cant say I have ever heard of this, has anyone

Dear Shallot Man, as far as i'm concerned bonemeal and chicken manure can actually attract foxes in.

Unless i have misread your post and this is what you are after.

OH, I agree, I did mention this to the fellow plot holder, but he was adamant, and early Sunday morning is not the best time to get into an argument.

SH

I agree with OH. I have knbown foxes to dig up potatoes because there were chicken pellets underneath. Bone meal has the same attraction

(Damn. I've just mentioned f***s, which I try not to do at this time of the year with all my free-range poultry out til after 8 at night )

Dear Shallotman,
I am reliably informed (not having tried this myself) that human p**s will discourage the foxes.
Btw don't leave bonemeal where cats and dogs can get at the bag. My cat slashed open the bag when I left it in my hallway. He ate a considerable quantity of it which he then proceeded to hack up all over the house! Bonemeal pongs when it is dry, stinks when it is wet and the smell it gives off when it has been in and out of a cat is truly AWFUL!!! I very nearly joined in!!
Regards Sally Wright.

sally wright wrote:Dear Shallotman,
I am reliably informed (not having tried this myself) that human p**s will discourage the foxes.

Yes, it seems to. See this old thread.

I just started "marking my territory" yesterday, when my wife, cleaning the outside lavatory shouted "And you can shift these two botles of old piss!" I have more in the polytunnel waiting to be sprinkled on the rest of our boundary

alan refail wrote:I just started "marking my territory" yesterday - I have more in the polytunnel waiting to be sprinkled on the rest of our boundary

So is this to keep human vermin off, or just the other scroungers?

In the meantime, this is an oldie but this chap was wandering around our allotments a few years ago and was quite unconcerned about me following him with a camera.

His descendents still dig up my neighbour's onions!

Colin

Just the foxes the farmers haven't shot.
We are rather short on the human intruders round here

Hi Alan,

'We are rather short on the human intruders round here.'

We are especially short of people around here and therein lies the problem. The next door property over half a mile away was 'done' sometime over the weekend. They even nicked two vintage tractors, all his welding equipment even down to his store of welding rods!
To gain access they pulled the double doors of his barn then smashed them up driving over them.
The thing is that they will never be able to dispose of these tractors other than breaking them up for spares.
I had the Police in this morning asking me if I had seen or heard anything.
There is a belt of trees between the two properties so sadly nothing.
JB.

Hi Johnboy

Fortunately we have just enough people round us in the village and everyone knows everyone else. Not much goes unnoticed! I always reckon if I get up early and scratch my backside by the back door, it'll be round the village by after breakfast

Hi Alan,
What I omitted to say was that we have more Foxes than people!
JB.