Bonemeal, Potatoes and Foxes

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    Planted my Second Earlies 4 days ago and sprinkled in some bonemeal at the bottom of the trench. Seems to have attracted a fox as I found this first thing:

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    grrrr!
     
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      Do Foxes eat potatoes. Can't say I've heard of this before. Usually chickens, ducks etc.
       
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        Sorry to see that JWK - after all your hard work!
         
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          Where I lived before here, the foxes loved potatoes - ok, admittedly they preferred them deep fried with some salt and pepper and cut into oblong shapes, but hey, urban foxes definitely aren't fussy :heehee:
           
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            No I reckon they were after the smell of the bonemeal, the potatoes were scrapped up and left intact, I have replanted them so no real harm done. I noticed a few other smaller holes in the garden a week or so ago, one had dug up some of my gladioli but not eaten the bulbs - again I'd used some bonemeal in the planting hole - I'm starting to put 2 and 2 together.
             
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              In that case, sprinkle bonemeal on the bit of the garden that still needs digging :)
               
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                Fox's will go for the bone meal and chicken poo pellets
                 
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                  I'm going to try this in the allotment :)
                   
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                    Easier to find some human teeth in a graveyard and hand them into the police saying you dug them up on the allotment :)

                    Only works once though, they got wise to me the second time :doh:
                     
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                      Where they yours mmmm mmmm Officer, gave it away :lunapic 130165696578242 5:
                       
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                        It's back:
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                          It also could be a badger
                           
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                            Got any wire netting?
                             
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                              Good idea Zigs, I was going to say I'll dig some out but that will make it worse :)
                               
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