NIGHT TIME VISITORS September 11th 2023

When I went to work this morning Rajan showed me where the pigs had got in last night and dug up a lot of the beds in the Prayog garden.

Despite the fact the pigs had obviously been on most of the beds, I was surprised there wasn’t too much damage. As can be seen from these pictures they left the basil plants more or less where they had been planted. Suggesting I suppose that the pigs don’t like to eat basil roots.

They had hardly touched the mango ginger either, so perhaps the smell from both these plants put them off.

In Malaysia I was told one way of keeping wild pigs off the crops is to put up shade nets along the fence. Pigs don’t have good eyesight and so they can’t see through the shade net. We’ve been meaning to try it here for some time and it looks like now is the time to put it up. Around here the pigs are more feral than wild so they are more used to human activity and I’ve a feeling that they might try harder to negotiate the nets. During my last Malaysian visit I was told that farmers are now much less bothered by wild pigs as it seems a lot have died from the latest version of swine fever.