Keeping Mr Fox Away

[Plot35]

I would like some advice please to do with a Fox.

I have prepared my Runner Bean bed by digging a trench filled it with newspaper and scrapes (that usually get composted) and than backed filled with the soil.

The problem I have is that there is many footprints in this bed made I am confident they were made by the fox. If he is walking over them now, when I come to put the beans in they will be crushed.

I need deter this fox now so by the time my beans go in he will not bother them.

I'm sure he can smell the food peelings ect I never had this last year but this year the fox has taken a liking to my plot this is not the first time I have already lost around ten broad beans by him digging them up or walking all over.

At this rate I will need one giant gage for the whole plot.

Any advice ideas?

Thank you

Denise

[Plot35]

[davyw1]

The Fox is a scavenger and if you have put food scraps in the trench then the chances are it will dig then up.

[manicscousers]

hiya, denise, welcome to the site,
I'm sure Hugh F W uses human hair to keep foxes away, don't know how you'd do it, anyone any more ideas?

[Robert_Brenchley]

Pee on it. Lion poo would probably work. But if it hasn't been digging already, don't panic. It'll be a while yet before you come to plant the beans out.

[aromatic]

 ;D Robert is absolutely correct.... human urine is a great source to deter Mr Fox....  I know from personal experience that it works... ( don't ask!!)

Also this may give you a few ideas that could help you out.....
www.theanswerbank.co.uk/Home-and-Garden/Question244266.html

If you have a source of electricity at your allotment, maybe you could rig up a security light to put the old Renard off his antics... or one of those infra red thingies that spray water??? may not be very practical for you, but just a thought.... maybe cheaper though to just collect your pee!!!

(sorry if anyone is eating as they read this!!)

 

[Plot35]

Thank you.

This fox comes on the plot even when i am on it he is not Bothered about us.

I shout I chasse just to make him too scared to come on the plot but that's does not work.

Husband's pee will have to do. Now I must go and tell him!

[bionear2]

Had the same problem in a newly dug bed at home. Bought some very cheap white pepper and scattered it around. Seemed to work, did not dig there again.
I get footprints and small digs on the lottie too, but no real damage so far. If it escalates it will be shotguns at midnight!

[chlodonnay2]

We have a fox who seems to live next to your plot. I like him and didn't realise he would be a nuisance? He seems very tame so I don't think shooing him away would work.

[Deb P]

I get a lot of foxes on my lottie, usually they just scrap around at particular points and don't do much damage.....last Sunday I found a particularly heavy footed fox had walked over one of my fleece covered potato beds, and ripped holes where he had trod...this was double thickness fleece! ::)

[Lacelotte]

Foxes wont go where they smell humans so get yourself down to your local hairdressers/barbers and ask for a bag of the hair off the floor. They will probably look at you very strangely and refuse to cut your hair in the future but once you have the bag of hair, fill old tights with it and pin them up around the perimeter fence. thats not to say you need to fill the tights fully, just little fist sized balls should do the job.

Hope that helps