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Cats make delightful pets, but they can be a nuisance in the vegetable garden.
Cats make delightful pets but not everyone has such a positive relationship with them in their garden.
It can be very frustrating when your vegetable beds become the toilet for the neighbourhood felines, or your precious young seedlings are dug up overnight.
In this video we show 6 tried and tested ideas to help persuade cats to stay away from your vegetable beds.
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Great ideas!!!
Sticks work particularly well if they are dried blackberry canes! But don't use fresh ones; they might root.
non lethal booby traps that scar them good but not harm them
or….. you could be nice to the kitties and lure them away from the garden by planting CATNIP for them in strategic spots
A problem in my area are squirrels that dig up young transplants. The only thing I have found that helps is putting netting around the newly planted areas. Once the transplants grow up they can withstand the squirrels so can take off the netting.
Cats are my greatest enemy in my garden right now. Thanks for the tips. Stop feeding feral cats!!! You may feel great about doing so but you are ultimately causing more cat suffering, think about it.
Thank you.
If youve ever had cats deciding your hard worked, nicely tilled soil is a perfect toilet, for daily visits, then you will be reaching for a gun, never mind nice sweet smelling herbs. Any thoughts of cats being nice friendly creatures must be balanced by how much bird and wildlife they indiscriminately kill. Cats should be banned as the outdoor free wandering pests (not pets) that they are. Owners should be liable and accountable for any and all damage caused.
My working cat is a valuable addition to my garden. He hunted down into extinction the rats, and is keeping at bay the squirrels and the rabbits, and prevents birds from eating all the fruits in my bushes.
My cat digs and uses the lavender as toilet too – power move?