Warning: foxes and Sainsbury's plug plants

If you have foxes, don't buy Sainsbury's plug plants. There's something animally in the compost.
I dotted about nine petunias about my containers. Every single one has been dug up, destroying or damaging other plants in the process.
I have covered the affected containers with dead holly leaves. If that doesn't work,I'll have to dump the petunias.
PS. If All the leaves are broken off a begonia corm/ tuber (whatever) will it sprout again this year?.

 

P.S. I think so.

 

I planted out some of my home grown annuals a few days ago and the foxes dug them up again overnight. I think it might be more the attraction of the disturbed earth.

 

Not here. It was forensic. If you can call foxes digging to be that precise.
The plants were dotted around as randomly as I could. Other stuff had been recently planted. The containers without the Trojan horse petunias were left alone. One long container had a petunia at the end. That was the only plant touched.

 

Foxes often eat worms apparently, so in the dry weather they tend to dig any damp soil where worms maybe near the surface.
The old water in the evening advice is not a good idea, it attracts foxes but more importantly attracts slugs and snails.

 

There was year's ago a company that made compost, think it was called Hot composting in sheds, would take in green waste but also they had animal waste and meat waste, not sure if this still goes on, but if you know the lorry you new it was meat waste going in, the company is now shut after the time limit for the big grant from the tax payer ran out

 

Plugs not touched this morning. Maybe the holly is working