Food badgers DONT like

[Honeysuckle4]

Hello
I have a small veg plot at home that is fenced in and an allotment, which is rife with badgers. I intend to grow veg at home that badgers like (but can't get at) and veg on allotment that they don't like.
Does anyone know please what veg badgers leave alone?
Thank you

[nickdub]

I've got badgers around my garden, but have never had much of a problem with them generally - they do like spring bulbs and will dig up grass looking for worms and insects.

Deer now, they are a bloody nuisance and the thought of roast venison has crossed my mind.

[Bren In Pots]

Welcome to the vine Honeysuckle

Can't help with your problem apart from posting this link from Badger rescue hopefully they'll have some advice:-

Badger Rescue - Advice & the Law

[SelkirkAlex]

I've got badgers around my garden, but have never had much of a problem with them generally - they do like spring bulbs and will dig up grass looking for worms and insects.

Deer now, they are a bloody nuisance and the thought of roast venison has crossed my mind.

I heartily second that, amazing how much damage a couple of roe deer can do, never had any badger damage, despite the woods around my garden being rife with them

[Kirk]

I would suspect that the problem is not finding something they do not like but more that they like worms and the nice easily dug through and moist soil of an allotment or bed will be full of nice juicy worms.

So in getting at the worms they dig up the plants, actually removing an inconvenient plant would leave a reasonably sized hole with likely access to several worms. They are also big, uprooting a cauli to get a worm is nothing to them.

Also I cannot think of a plant they would be deterred by, any smelly plant is worth investigating as far as they are likely concerned, could you guess try cheap (Very cheap) aftershave .

[nickdub]

I suppose, if badgers proved an issue, you could leave a bit of ground covered in a sort of low-level compost heap, then they'd most likely start their worm-digging activities there.

[mothhawk]

I had a badger dig a den under an old summer house at the bottom of the stable yard once. It stole the best part of a bale of hay to line the den, leaving bits scattered everywhere along the "drag" route, then ripped out all the aubretia from the next door garden that hung down over a low wall to finish it off. Thankfully it only stayed a year, and the next year a fox moved in and had a litter there.