Cats!

[mysteryduck]

This is probably a silly question. But how many of you have cats?

As I mentioned in another thread.. soon I'll have a garden and my plan is to try my hand at veg gardening! I'd also love a cat! Are cats and veg gardening compatible?

[Thelma Sanders]

I have a cat and she uses the indoors cat litter tray, but I still have to net my garden veg beds because other people's cats like to 'use' them!

[roitelet]

I have 4 cats plus a stray that I feed and a large veg patch. I protect the newly sown seed with a moveable wire netting frame the seed bed gets re arranged.

[Nicos]

My cat uses the next door's veg patch and their cat uses ours

Fair swap eh?

[4Shoes]

That's my experience, the cat always go somewhere else....

But if you have the only plot in the street, be warned the morse code will be going full time and you will have them all Cats, Foxes, you name it.

[mysteryduck]

Interesting! Thanks for the feedback guys

[dee9]

I don't have a cat but want to get one or two! I think I will search among abandoned ones

[bramble]

I had two cats for years and every time I dug anywhere in the garden they were into it immediately.
They also used to follow the heat of the sun around the garden and I would find them lying on my plants.
My advice...cats and gardening are not compatible.

[Thelma Sanders]

My advice...cats and gardening are not compatible.

Unless you are prepared to net anywhere you don't want them to go (as in go or 'go' )

Thing is if you don't have them - you bet someone nearby will have, but I suppose if that is the case the sonic deterrents are supposed to work quite well to keep them out.

[TrixC]

If you have your own cat you can provide it with a litter tray, and it will be unlikely to ‘go’ in the garden. It will also keep other cats out of your garden, since cats are territorial. If you don’t have a cat, neighbours’ cats will use your vege garden as a toilet.

[1Bee]

Personally I like gardening with cats. *shrugs* I used to use upturned wire mesh hanging baskets to protect newly sprouting clumps, twigs and net or fleece to protect seedlings and the rest I can mostly deal with.

It's the neighbourhood tom who insists on pooping on our grass paths on the plot that annoys me - means I have to clear ahead of taking my boys to the plot.

[Dead Dogs]

Don’t have a cat now. But at a previous location, a long time ago that seams like a previous life, had up to 6 cats and a dog that thought it was a cat. No neighbor’s cats came into our garden and our cats mostly used the their tray. Sometimes they missed.
Didn’t grow veg then, but at our last place best solution to keep cats and sheep out of gareden was our dog. Even kept them out of areas that the dog couldn’t go.
In our current home we don’t get cats in the garden, well not since the dog chased a cat through the hedgeto next door.

[nickdub]

No general problems with cats and gardening, but cats will find any well prepared seed beds in nice warm spots and make themselves comfortable by rolling on them sometimes. I used to scatter branches of thorny hedge prunings like rose and hawthorn over any fine beds I had prepared.

[Nicos]

Hibou has taken to sleeping on the soil of one of my window boxes

She loves helping us garden....plays with weeds we've pulled up...lays on bags of seeds/bulbs...chases disturbed beetles and worms, jumps in and out of the wheelbarrow, and peers down any holes we dig.
Brill companion!

[SarrissUK]

I absolutely find that my seven cats are more amusing than helpful in my gardening activities, and the joy that they bring me much outweighs the minor destruction they can sometimes cause I'm most definitely a crazy cat lady and I wouldn't have it any other way!