Toxoplasmosis

[Deltawhiskey]

I was reading a post about molar clay. The use of used cat litter was a no no because of toxoplasmosis. I have cats regularly crapping in my raised beds despite my efforts to deter them. They even crap on top of the mesh. Now I am worried about infection.

Deltawhiskey

[veggiechicken]

Take normal sensible precautions (gloves, washing hands) - because you can also pick it up from fruit and veg and raw meat.
https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/Toxoplasmosis/

[It never rains..it pours]

If you are near the coast, I cover mine with seaweed in the winter, they don't seem to like it

[Deltawhiskey]

Some of the crap was on top of the seaweed! I am going to harvest some holly to see of they like crapping on that.

Deltawhiskey

[Voglen]

Another plot holder is feeding cats on site by food leftovers... I am trying with fence at the moment.

[It never rains..it pours]

Sorry to hear seaweed no use, they are very annoying to say the least. Here get the odd one on the lawn but if they appear on the veggie beds then plan to trial some electric fencing borrowed from relation

[Can the Man]

Nino skins, orange, grapefruit or lemon skins, the one where you cut the fruit in 1/2 and squeeze the juice out of. I’ve also seen people fill PET bottles with water and leave in the bed apparently what ever way the light reflects off the water in the bottle freaks them out.

[Can the Man]

I’m not sure if holly branch’s will work either, in my holiday home in the Canary Islands we used have a lovely cactus shrubbery with various types of cacti, we had the earth covered in picon negro which is small people’s of lava rock, despite all the spikey cactai the local cats managed to turn my shrubbery into the local cat toilet. Every visit I made I would spend the first day cleaning it out because we couldn’t sit on the patio with the smell from the sun on it.
Solution was to get rid of the shrubbery and fill it in with rubble and tile over it turning it into a sun bench.

[ameno]

I get cats doing their business in my veg patch all the time. I just scoop it up, with a bit of the surrounding soil, and dump it at the bottom of the garden under a rose bush. I think the rose actually really likes all the cat manure, as it's bigger and stronger growing, with more flowers, than any of my other roses.

Bacteria that normally live in animals generally won't survive long in the soil. As long as they don't crap near stuff that's almost ready to harvest then as long as you wash it well you will be fine.

[burnie]

I think this thread has run it's course, the language is getting rather more "toilet" than gardening.