I nipped to get a better camera for the job. The cub hung around for a while.
Later, When I was checking around the garden I found a few potato plants had been decimated. The Badgers !
There had been 4 potato plants dug up and the tubers eaten. Another 2 plants had tubers dug out. This was about 20% of my outdoor crop gone.
It was my fault as I have left an area where the badgers could tunnel in under the wire. That has now been staked off using pegs and canes. I have also planted an additional 3 potatoes from my reserve - They were intended to go into the greenhouse pots when I picked the indoor potatoes later this month.
In the mean time, I have been taking out the large Oxe-Eye daisies from the top lawn. The area is being set to seed as lawn, with the intention of adding a seat below the Tulip Tree when the grass is well established. I have laid topsoil mixed with grass seed between the rows of bricks, the areas each side need the daisy roots removing and then dressing with lawn soil.
From this area I recovered 2 Holly shrubs, 2 Aquilegias, and transplanted blocks of Daisies into the back of one raised bed and to the hedge side of the meadow area. There is also a rose shrub (self set) and a fern to be lifted later.
Quite an eventful day.
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