About 4am I heard something disturbing the gravel on the garden path, followed by a chomping sound. Curious to discover what was happening, I got out of bed and went down to the conservatory and switched on the outside lights. A grey badger was chomping away at our tulip bulbs. I opened the door and stepped outside. The culprit was gone in the bat of an eyelid.
The badger had been sitting on the top step and digging up the tulip bulbs from the pot.
Fortunately, the pot was loaded with 3 varieties of tulips at different depths. The about 10 plants were damaged and 8 bulbs were consumed. I would have expected each bulb to produce 2 offshoot but if each bulb produced 2 offshoot bulbs, then that is a potential loss of 24 plants for next year.
Not much to salvage here, but at least there is a happy badger bringing up its new offspring somewhere out there.
The pot will now be moved from the steps and refreshed in the hope that it will be too tall for the badger to scavenge from when it is on flat ground.
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