Really Pi**ed Off!

[Nicos]

Badgers pull the pears off my tree.. and eat them...

Beats my wasps then!!!!

[zebedee]

A bloke on our allotment plot, like a lot of others, suffered from thieving little gits, so he delibarately p****d on his sweetcorn. Mmmmmm, nice!

[The Doctor]

Your picture is a typical sight from my garden....I would still maintain it was badgers, they strip the cobs while they are in situ and then chew them to stumps. I got round it this year by sowing early varieties and harvested them before the badgers visited (they only seem to visit our garden during August and September)

How gutting for you!

In all seriousness, can a badger remove cobs from a plant around 1.5m high without pushing the plant over by weight or intention??

Never seen ANY rats or squirrels on the site, though I am not naive enough to suggest they are not almost certainly around.

I think what I find really annoying is that I almost picked them last weekend!

[Madasafish]

Badgers pull down my rasp plants, pick pears (small tree and downwards bending branches so easy) and eat blueberries.
Ditto squirrels.

I keep humans off with barbed wire (winter) and Himlayan Giant Blackberry - nice fruit ferocious thorns, plus hawthorn and pyracantha... all nice but attract birds (good) who eat fruit(bad)

[Headfry]

Badgers!, My friend has a plot and the people near her had the exact same thing happen. sweetcorn gone, outer leaves scattered on ground. Have double checked with her. She said 110pc sure to be badgers! they will wait till corn is ripe and work their way through all plots looking for ripe corn!

[Headfry]

ps they even dug a tunnel under fence to get to plots!!!!!

[rustylady]

Yes, but surely badgers can't reach too high? And the picked cobs wouldn't be left on the plant, would they? I can't see the pictures for some reason, so I'm assuming from the thread that the cobs are still on the plant and not on the ground.

[Headfry]

I am told by said friend that the badgers will only take them when they are ready! will leave the rest and come back later!

[The Doctor]

There isn't a a single one left!

And, yes, the cobs are still there, on the ground, stripped of corn.

I still find it hard to believe that a badger could reach the high ones without pushing the plant over.

[Headfry]

hmmmmmm, all very odd? we need a badger expert I think!

[Winged one]

Would snadger be the one for the job????

[cottage garden]

Badgers are surprisingly agile, they have been filmed climbing 5 foot fences and have a penchant for ripe fruit and sweetcorn. In fact, they will do anything for sweetcorn. The fact that they harvested your sweetcorn more than your neighbours is testament to how good yours was. But give it a week or so and they will be back for your neighbours as well.

They have nicked my sweetcorn for years and have never knocked over a single plant. Sometimes you will find black squidgy poo near by.

[Peter]

....And, yes, the cobs are still there, on the ground, stripped of corn....

and if they show no trace of being cooked, or cut with a knife then it must be wildlife.

I had a dog once that got a sardine tin from the cupboard.....



we found a little pile of chewed bits of metal sucked clean of fish, a tin with 2"x1" missing off the corner and a dog with grey teeth.


Metal which brushed off with vigerous tooth cleaning.

The next week she emptied the fridge.

The week after she found lots of child locks fitted.

[The Doctor]

and if they show no trace of being cooked, or cut with a knife then it must be wildlife.

And a two-legged scumbag couldn't just pull them off and eat them raw??

[Peter]

And a two-legged scumbag couldn't just pull them off and eat them raw??

Not couldnt, but would you eat it raw and neatly, or take it home and cook it?