Foxes Attacking my Netted Cabbages... Need Advice Please

[Old bird]

Back to your subject of your cabbages!!!

Why don't you do what others have suggested which is "mark" your territory with urine.  This supposedly does mark it out as someone else's "territory".

Worth a try I would think! 

O B

;D

[Old bird]

[daxzen]

i still think that it is badgers

dax

[cornykev]

No, foxes.   ;D ;D ;D

[plainleaf2]

does really matter if they are badgers or foxes.
the point is to prevent plant damage.

[Digeroo]

I do not understand why foxes should be interested in cabbages.  Do foxes eat cabbages?  or do they attack the netting to get at other prey?

It seems odd that now there is less hunting there seem to be fewer foxes, I have not heard them, seen one  or seen a dead one on the roads for many months.

Badgers are big heavy animals compared with foxes, and badgers certainly do like vegetables.

[manicscousers]

we've seen 2 dead ones in the last 3 weeks, on the roads  :-\

[coznbob]

The foxes play havoc with my plot, the younger ones seem to think anything is fair game ::)

Think the suggestion of some kind of wiring plus netting on top may save them from the cabbage whites and provide some deterent....

[Eristic]

Why don't you do what others have suggested which is "mark" your territory with urine.

We've been here before, It's dirty, disgusting and worst of all, doesn't work. God gave us trees, use them.

[ceres]

God gave us trees, use them.

How do trees protect cabbages from foxes  :-\  :P

[Digeroo]

What about an electric fence?

[jennym]

Have seen this sort of damage myself - think it's the foxes going after slugs and snails. It's possible that there may be slugs and snails lurking in your cabbage area.
Here they've been known to dig around potatoes that have been left in the ground too long, and I've seen them dig up around a patch of tatty lettuce. So maybe if you eliminate the slugs amd snails you may discourage the foxes.

[Digeroo]

They eat slugs and snails   :o - bring back foxes all is forgiven.

[redimp]

Why don't you do what others have suggested which is "mark" your territory with urine.

...It's dirty, disgusting...

Why is it?

God gave us trees....

Prove it?

[Robert_Brenchley]

I've spent the last year marking a specific rhubarb clump every time I was on the plot, to see whether it would affect the plant. There was no effrect at all till last month. After several weeks with no rain worth mentioning, it started to wilt as the urine built up.

[tonybloke]

a lot of rhubarb is wilting with lack of rain, not neccessarily due to nitrogen build up?

[Unwashed]

I reckon urine works.  You never used to get foxes in telephone boxes.

[mpdjulie]

Well I thought I would update you all.  After putting the wire mesh over the top of the netted timber frame, it seems to have done the job.  Foxes have climbed on it again - there are depressions on the wire mesh - but it has held and my cabbages are in tact.
Thanks for all your responses
JULIE

[Geoff H]

Glad you seem to have it solved. Seems like the foxes thought you were giving them a climbing frame to play on. Cant imagine foxes wanting cabbages or that cabbages would harbour a food source that made them so persistent. but foxes can get fixated about something that amuses them in some way.
Wish i had the foxes here. On my privately rented allotment we have hordes of bunnies and I am having to dig in over 100 metres of netting.
On my vegetable garden in town I have a few rabbits but pigeons by the horde - I suspect many are homing pigeons. Yesterday i went down and neighbouring chickens had scratched up some of my overwintering onions and garlic. Stuff hunting. I would cheerfully provide a day time shelter and light refreshments to any fox that wanted to take up residence!

[tonybloke]

On my vegetable garden in town I have a few rabbits but pigeons by the horde - I suspect many are homing pigeons.

why do you think they are 'homing' pigeons? wouldn't they all be either at, or on the way to, 'home'
any pigeon that does not come home is not, by definition, a homing pigeon!!

[Ninnyscrops.]

Maybe they got lost Tony  ;D