Lawn + badger problem Ideas please

My elderly mum has asked me to pass on a query…
Does anyone have any ideas on how to stop a badger digging in her lawn (in a smallish suburban garden)?
Badgers have had a route through the garden for over forty years (including a new gate being raised sufficiently to allow access underneath, and clearing a couple of holes under the fence as necessary), but in the last couple of weeks divots are being dug up and she really doesn’t want it to get worse. I have no clue if anything can be done, so any helpful hints would be gratefully received

 

There's not much you can do, badgers are a force of nature.
They are probably digging in the lawn for grubs, cranefly larvae, chafer grubs etc, you could treat for those.
The other year my front grass was dug up overnight, not been touched since. This week they've dug up a patch at the base of a spruce tree. Last summer they were digging the grass up near the compost heap.
The only thing you can really do is a good stout electric fence.
I used to see them quite regularly then a change of neignbours in several properties all with dogs. Badgers became less visible. Most of these neighbours have moved on so I might see the badgers again.

 

We have lived here for twenty years and have never had badger damage on the lawns. The previous owners put scraps out for the local badgers every night, and when we bought the property, we carried on! For the cost of a slice of brown bread and peanut butter, we seem to have escaped any excavations in the grass. We enjoy seeing the badgers on our cctv, and they visit most nights.

 

Urine also works to deter them. Worked for us.

 

Might not be the badgers. I blamed them for many years as my garden was also on a badger highway. However in the last year or so they seem to have moved on but I've realised that foxes are visiting daily. And they are definitely digging holes, so maybe it was them all along ...

Solutions are probably the same though.

 

Foxes tend to dig discrete holes, badgers leave it looking as if a mad person with a rotovator has visited.
Yes Jeyes fluid or urine work for a while and in my garden they just go elsewhere.

 

Thanks for the replies, they’re really interesting. Any more advice anyone?

I’m visiting her tomorrow so will see the problem and let her know what’s been suggested.