Father Christmas (in the person of Mark’s sister Laura) gave us some scarecrows last December.  They have stayed indoors during the worst of the weather, but have come out to play now that summer is here.  They are guarding our sweetcorn.

Scarecrows 7 July

The sweetcorn got trashed last year, along with virtually everyone else’s at the allotments.  Inititially we thought that it was deer that had done the damage, although the final consensus on the allotments was that it was badgers, as someone had tracked the trail of debris.  The animals had in some cases dug under fences, but in our case actually clambered over the fence, pulling it over (along with a couple of fence posts) in the process.

Trashed sweetcorn

The scarecrows, won’t stop this sort of attack, so the fences have been repaired and strengthened and we are using “Grazers” spray http://www.grazers.co.uk  to deter predators.