Cats!!!

[JohnVisual]

Hey, dose anyone have any tips on how to keep cats of there veg patch, ive used a whole bottle of "cat off" in the past 2 weeks but it is still coming over and digging up my onion sets.

[si'sraisedbed]

I put a criss cross pattern of sticks accross my bed (it's only small) and this seems to keep them off until the plants have established. Once the plants are up the cats do not seem to bother any more. I also used the anti cat powder that Growing Success do, that seemed to work well but it stank!!

[zazen999]

I used Silent Roar last year and it worked a treat - can't find any at the moment though in the shops; so I am still looking. [It's lion poo].

[rustylady]

If you search the older threads you'll find this subject has been discussed at length. I don't think anyone's found a foolproof way of keeping cats off the garden yet. If anyone does I'd be interested to hear.

[Digger-07]

Cemtex in the borders.

[Two_Sheds]

Yep, do a Search on 'cats'. There are hundreds of posts, inc. this one: http://www.growfruitandveg.co.uk/gra...cats_1091.html

[MadamJoJo]

Black pepper in copious amounts (mentioned before I think) works for me, as it makes them sneeze when they scratch the soil up !!

[allotmentlady]

Coffee beans (crushed ) they dont like it, they will come once but not again lol

[Polly Fouracre]

Try gorse clippings cut up into two inch lengths and scattered over the bed.

[l00pylou]

also if there is a way you can paint neat jayes fluid onto rocks etc cats do not like this i had to do it once at a house i lived in because of the cats i painted it neat on the top of the wall and along the bottom of my gate and they did not come back you do have to keep it up tho
loux

[deezyb]

Hey, dose anyone have any tips on how to keep cats of there veg patch, ive used a whole bottle of "cat off" in the past 2 weeks but it is still coming over and digging up my onion sets.

JV - would you think I can use `cat off' in my house? I'm laughing now, but only just!...my kitten jumped a bit higher onto where I'm keeping some seedlings upstairs, and the whole lot is now a bloody mess on my floor! i was none to happy, and she scarperred pdq! have tried to clean up as much as I can...

Seriously...as I've got cats I also find it hard to keep them and others off my veg...this year I've got some green granules(I will check the name for you) that smell awful...I throw them about the plot regularly...but with the wet weather sometimes, you need to do this more often. The other thing I did with one of my raised beds was to put netting over it and peg it down...cats don't like this on their feet...and plants/seedlings can still grow through it.

[squashysu]

hi i have been told that to stop cats in the garden is to fill old coke/lemonade bottles (without the labels) fill them with water and leave them around the veg pach and then they wont come - i know this has worked for people in the past and it is really easy, dont know why they dont like this??

Give it a go, its free and cheap (well if you drink lemonade!!!)

SS

[Madasafish]

Simple.

Take one piece of wood 1 metre wide by 0.5 metre high.
Paint it white.
Take some black paint and write neatly on it:
"Cats keep out"


Place it in the garden.

Works for me. We have no cats in our garden.





The fact that none of our local neighbours have cats - we have a very active local fox family - is irrelevant.