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Growing sweetcorn – how we beat the badgers!

  • Posted on November 16, 2021
  • by PH

This is one plotholder’s account of how they managed to outfox the badgers to grow sweetcorn successfully! It’s been a matter of frustration for sweetcorn growers at the Golden Hill…

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Badger meets its end at Golden Hill!

  • Posted on August 14, 2021August 14, 2021
  • by PH

A sad and rather macabre sight was to be seen on St. Agnes Field in the Golden Hill site last week. A dead badger was found on one of the…

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Sweetcorn – human versus badger

  • Posted on August 25, 2020August 25, 2020
  • by PH

In summer 2020, on the Golden HIll site, the badger has been around again attacking plotholders’ sweetcorn. However, some allotmenteers have been fighting back by using various techniques to counter…

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Wildlife Gardening

  • Posted on January 5, 2019January 31, 2019
  • by PH

Have you ever considered the wildlife that may be living on your allotment plot? Would you like to know how to encourage wildlife to visit and even live on your…

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Badgers on Golden Hill?

  • Posted on August 21, 2018August 21, 2018
  • by PH

There are some mysterious goings-on at the Golden HIll site. Many plotholders have reported damage to their sweetcorn crops this month. While it’s not unusual to have the tops of…

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Badgers on Birchall?

  • Posted on April 21, 2018April 23, 2018
  • by PH

After the inspiring wildlife talk at the recent AGM, I decided to look at my allotment on Birchall Field in a new light. Most of the wildlife I encounter did…

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