Our “lawn” now looks like a scale model of the Western Front circa 1917:
Every morning lately I have a new set of holes to fill in.
If nobody wants the Creature I shall have to try renting it out for earthmoving duties on the HS2 rail project…
All suggestions for badger repellent are welcome (apart from getting a dog which I would like to do but isn’t practical at the moment).
I’ll take your badger!
He might not like our garden though because it is dry, rock hard and sniffed around occasionally by two dogs disguised as sheep
I can take a hint…
My wife might have a view on that.
Uncle had a badger which passed through his garden en-route to wherever. Yes, used to make a mess of his pride and joy. That was in Dorset.
Finally he put up some low but solid fencing which gave the badger a narrow corridor to follow from in on one side of the garden and out at the other side.. while protecting his flowers etc etc
If you can locate where the badger enters you might be able to do similarly, just a thought 
We used to get badgers causing damage where we used to live, but mainly at night. The dog used to chase them off if he heard them but that was quite rare. There must be some sort of IR detector connected to a noise maker (eg barking) available that will deter them.
If they are digging for food, you could provide them with their own food bowls for a while, to let your lawn recover, until you have a dog.
Use wet cat or dog food, or specialist badger food.
Provide some fruits, such as apples, plums or pears, and nuts, such as unsalted peanuts or brazils.
Leave out root vegetables like carrots, along with some cooked potato.
If food isn’t eaten overnight, remove anything that will go off and replace it with fresh offerings in the evening.
Or, you need a brown wheely bin.
I can’t stand this particular ad - but your thread reminded me of it.
Ours was a “badger” with a small “b”. But if it was you, get the heck off of my lawn! 
A good thought, but there are lots of places where the badger can get in - it’s dug a hole under the side gate, there have been multiple diggings under the wooden fence between us and the neighbours, and also under the hedge and wire fence that separates us from the village green. Blocking one entrance just results in a new one being dug unfortunately.
A reasonable idea, but not sure if it would work as we also have lots of other wildlife passing through, such as a couple of local cats plus foxes and deer. So it would be a contest to see who ate the food first I think. And I would not want to encourage any of them to consider our garden as a kind of motorway service area!
We have two brown bins - though usually full of garden waste, not much room for badger storage, and we don’t put food in them.
That is the stuff of nightmares.
Diane Morgan (aka Philomena Cunk) doing the voiceover I believe.
Thanks for all the ideas; I think a dog would be the best bet as we never used to get badgered when we had dogs. Will have to think about it.
It does seem to be seasonal - we’ve only just started with the problem over the past few weeks and we’ve had badgers coming and going for years. (evidence - badger poo). They seem (if I remember rightly) to be doing this in our garden only in the autumn in past years. No idea why.
A few years ago we had a badger that visited the garden at night for a few days. He turned the squirrel’s box of walnuts upside down and ate all the nuts, putting his head back and crunching them with his molars. He also dug a few holes here and there. But we didn’t mind. He was so gorgeous to watch in action. All the other badgers we’ve seen have been dead by the side of the road. Poor things.
I assume there are some kind of tasty larvae in the grass that they are searching for. I don’t think it’s theft of buried squirrel nut caches as a) it’s all over two specific patches of grass and b) there are gazillions of fallen acorns (which apparently badgers also eat) they could gladly have.
Well I mind.
One or two holes OK, but this is wholesale excavation, and it leaves the grass very lumpy and patchy afterwards, it’s no longer flat.
It might be after a bees nest - we sometimes find a hole with some dead bees around it thanks to local badgers.
Have a look at this link and I think you’ll find something effective. Could save on your water bill by reason of fewer flushings of the WC as well.
Preparation for life in France, @ChrisMann 
Re-reading the thread title, I’m inclined to ask if it’s lightly foxed?
Are you sure you’re going to like France, Chris ? Flat lawns don’t really seem to be a thing amongst the natives.
It’s been sad to see the badger bodies by the side of the road, around here, over the years. Five in total.
There’s apparently a cruel practice of killing them, in France where people hunt them down and kill them in their holes. France recently banned the practice but it doesn’t really deter bad people’s intentions.
One night at midnight driving home from band rehearsal about a year ago I almost drove over a poor beautiful badger someone had killed and left in the road for the next hapless driver to drive over. I stopped and gingerly, with gloves on, gently moved the body off to the side curb. Clearly it hadn’t been killed by a car, it was too perfectly positioned and intact. The others I have seen haven’t been killed by cars.
Anyway. I’ve not stopped the dinner conversation dead, have I? 
