That is rotten luck.. I think the hard winter may be the cause, herbage is in short supply.. Its possible the Badger kept the others away, as at one time I had a Fox made its lair on my ground and I never had any Rabbit trouble.. We used to soak a string in creosate and run it round the area they ate in, but I think it is now banned. I believe there is a deterrant for Deer that might do the trick.

This is typrical of bunnies. I watched the squirrel today and they are shallow scrapes really. Bunnies do nip the tops off things. So sorry you are having so much trouble spritz.

Thanks - I'll google and see what comes up.

Oh! Dear Barbara, what a shame, I agree with Poaannua, when you get rid of the big ones, smaller animals take over. Also it could be the big vegetarian mice, distinquished by their short tails. If it is squirrels, tunnel traps are the answer, they like mars bars.

I am so sick of finding damage every day, Docbob. :-(( I really don'tknow which it is, now, after finding the hole.

how about getting a jack russel and a dog flap . you could even put a small secutity light so the dogs knows when theres animals out there.i guess it could cause its own problems and im biast.you can borrow my pug cross on my blogs today actualy .she weighs about 10 pounds .shed clear ya garden if it had tigers and bears in it i think.well she thinks so.sorry about ya plants spritz you know me just trying to chear you up.if there badgers there omnivours so you will find quite a few small to big holes wear they look for grubs,worms etc.theres like a high pitch thing that humans cant here you can get with an inf red senser.i dont ever knowneed that sort of thing as ive always got dogs and im not in a situation to get badgers etc realy.i think deer are are sensative to humans smell ie human hair in tites.the only other way is to put like an aviary of chicken wire to be sure.buried in the ground sticking outwards for 45 degrees about 2 foot down as most animals cant concieve walking or digging back to the sorce of the wire ie they only dig next to the chicken wire wear its sticking upwards out the ground and getting know.wear.i get 30m of chicken wire bye about 4` wide for about £55 and some thin wouldnt frame work.get the old man out in the summer maybe lol.anyway good luck take care bye for now xx.

Np - we ended up with an electric fence round the badgers' tunnel, so they're not a problem any longer, thank goodness. It's smaller animals of some kind now. I don't think that Henry would appreciate another dog in 'his' house! Thanks for the idea - and the sympathy - though. :-)

perhaps a shorter fence of the same type spritze but good luck anyway .maybe feed them food you know theyl eat but maybe not in your garden.anyway good luck xx.

Thanks - I'll keep trying to deal with it! xx

your welcome xx

Gosh Spritz you are having trouble, I'm afraid i've almost given up and fight a rear guard action! the rabbits seem to attack certain areas-- namely my troughs and pots they seem to go anywhere that the soil is soft or bare or recently cultivated my garden is much too big to protect ( my neighbour has a stoutly fenced veg garden) so i try to protect vulnerable areas the worst last year was newly planted impatiens ( jumping on the pots and tunneling to Oz :o) not sure if i solved it but put a smaller pot ontop of a large one (like a tower) and planted it up with pansies -- this seems to have worked but maybe they don't like pansies as last year they avoided the marigolds!
Good luck and I'll follow how you get on with interest

Pam, that's an interesting snippet about the pansies and marigolds.

It is, Louise - Pam, what else do you do, please?

scream-- shout-- jump up and down -- !
we're surrounded by fields and are very open and so I use as much ground cover as possible I have given up with borders but have strong growing shrubs an plants that the rabbits dislike-- planted Lonicera baggenses gold last year and unfortunatly they love it even digging down to eat the roots, they also liked newly planted euonymus but havn't bothered the established ones. I need help too really, I have a long sandstone trough-- been in this garden for many years, I decided to grow small herbaceous plants in it and it was beginning to look lovely until one morning last summer it was devastated deep holes allover it I tried everything Netting it,small fences. even windmills and it still looks like a battleground this spring i'm going to bury chicken wire under the surface and plant annuals just to see if it works.My neighbour who was a farmer obviously has the same problem and sadly says the only 'cure' is mixy awful I know . Sorry so gloomy but looking at the prints in the snow there's an awful lot and altho we've a fox she can't keep up ! goodluck xx

Having had the same problem 10 years ago Spritz we found the only solution was to put stock proof fencing around the garden (to keep the deer and fox out) the lower part of the fence was a really small mesh and it has kept everything else out except moles! An expensive remedy as I have a large garden but for me it was worth it. My neighbour was so impressed with my results he did the same to his but failed to clear a warren first so he ended up trapping his rabbits in, not the best solution, but at least they were more easily removed as they could no longer escape.

We are basically well-fenced, Janpled - our predecessors put up good strong fences and even some areas of taut green plastic tightly woven mesh - the only place they could be getting in (I think) is the gate! I'll have to go all round it all and see if there are any holes visible. Not easy with a thick evergreen hedge along one stretch! (the mesh is behind that).

Thanks for the thought. It's worth another check.

Don't suppose you've had the recent snow as its amazing how many tracks are in the garden, you can clearly see their usual paths -- little perrishers !

No - we only had one fall, and that was a while back. Husband has saved the remaining crocuses by making little 'cages' out of chicken wire. Not very pretty, but at least I'll get to see a few flowers!