What did you do in the garden today?

[chickenstricken]

Let me know if it works.I have one cat that goes outside (the other is too chicken of the chickens lol) and she destroys the gardens. And never the ones I don't care about, just the perennial beds right in front of the house. I've yelled and sprayed her with the hose, but it still doesn't seem to be helping. I don't think the rudbeckia will make it this year.

Well it didn't work. However, to be fair, I'm going to give it another try. It rained last night, and washed off a lot of the powder. I applied another generous dose. I'll check it tomorrow.

 

[Peaches Lee]

Finally got some stuff planted over the weekend!...

 

[chickenstricken]

sprinkled cayenne pepper all over the ground. I hope it keeps the (insert expletive here) cats from using the garden as a litter box.

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aaaaand another worthless "cat repellant" idea.

I just shoved about 50 popsicle sticks in the ground, lets see if that works.

 

[Peaches Lee]

How big is your garden? Would it be possible to surround the area with chicken wire? That is what we do and it keeps the chickens and the cats out.

 

[Angelicisi]

Motion activated sprinkler works awesome if you can't catch them in the act with a super soaker a few times. Also...put chickenwire DOWN on the ground flat where they are "going". Cats HATE walking on the wire. The pads of their feet are very sensitive.

Popsicle sticks will annoy them too (who wants to squat onto a stick!? Lol
I use the Scarecrow sprinkler for one garden it works great! But was a gift! I know they're sorta expensive

But water and wire along the ground will def. help.

aaaaand another worthless "cat repellant" idea.


I just shoved about 50 popsicle sticks in the ground, lets see if that works.

 

[chickenstricken]

maybe I'll give the chicken wire a try. One of the popsicle sticks was knocked down and the dirt was all bunched up. With a present inside.

 

[Angelicisi]

My grandma uses to set unbaited mouse traps all over lol she said it worked like a charm. I never had mouse traps to try it.

 

[erinszoo]

We use heavy poultry netting, the plastic kind 4' wide. It isn't stiff enough for them to climb over. The red pepper only works for dogs and canine species because they sniff it up their nose. Cats scratch then sniff so ... plus their noses are pretty small.

 

[FlySammyJ]

My grandma uses to set unbaited mouse traps all over lol she said it worked like a charm. I never had mouse traps to try it.

I would be afraid of breaking the cat's toes, but knowing me mine would get broken first, trying to work around a bunch of live traps. We use the tall deer netting to keep deer out and it works for the cats, too. It's inexpensive, flimsy stuff, but pretty tall and almost invisible from a distance, so it confuses critters more than it physically stops them.

 

[erinszoo]

Became absolutely smitten with my scarlet runner beans today. This is our first year to grow them and the flowers are the most amazing color red.