Hedgehog - not only to sniff sweet creation, it is rightly called a true vegetable garden sanitation. Once a guest has appeared on my site, all pests - caterpillars, slugs, snails - instantly disappeared - hedgehog they feasted well.
I remember once found in his compost pit a whole family of hedgehogs, and only then realized who helped me clean the garden from pests. However, with the onset of winter, I somehow forgot about hedgehogs, and they, in turn, found their other habitats.
Only later, already during the beds, I realized that with the disappearance of sea urchins there was a lot of small backbiters, who hunted with impunity in my garden.
So I decided once again to make me back the little spiky clumps. Of course, I guarantee there were not any - there can be as lucky - whether hedgehog wanders to my site, or not. But I decided after all to create favorable conditions so that, if anything, he wanted me to settle down for him.
First thing I was allocated a quiet corner near the fence and to distribute the leaves
- it will be something like Yezhov house. Naturally, then took care of the bait - as a delicacy made small pieces of meatI laid out near the pile of leaves. It is also necessary to provide impromptu drinking trough - plain water - the best option. By the way, many people mistakenly believe that the hedgehogs should be fed with milk, but it is extremely erroneous opinion. Even though they love him, but dairy products cause severe gastric upset urchins, which can be dangerous for their life.After all this work I could only wait. And I have a couple of weeks, going out into the garden after sunset, I heard a familiar snort quiet - it was a hedgehog, who went in search of food.
A few more months and I have already lived in the garden are lovely lumps here:
Soon, snails, caterpillars and slugs again disappeared from my flower beds. So I advise you and make friends with this lovely creation - it is absolutely nepriveredliv and perfectly protect your site from attack by pests.