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What can I plant in my garden to put off cats from using my vegetable patch for a litter tray?
Hardiness Zone: 3b
By Vinny from Liverpool, England
I know that they hate citrus so I would put a lot of peels around that area. I may have to do that this year too. Or hot pepper sauce mixed with oil or soapy water sprayed around there and repeat every week and if it rains. These are cheap and worth trying
I like the citrus peel solution for keeping cats out of the garden! However, would that encourage ants? We already have a problem with them, as we live at the beach and the soil is very sandy! I am sick to the back teeth of neighbours' cats in my garden, will want to try any humane solution.
By Annie L
I want to keep cats off my garden and stop them from coming into my house.
By Lindy from Wolves
Are there any non lethal ways to deter neighbours cat from doing its business in my nice gardens! argh!
By linn from Canada
This is a page about keeping cats out of planters. Outdoor cats often find your planters to be a convenient toilet or napping spot.
This is a page about keeping cats out of flowerbeds. Keeping your cat or the neighbor's kitty our of your flowerbeds can be a challenge, but there are a number of solutions you can try.
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Unknowingly, I built raised garden beds for litter boxes for neighborhood cats. I would like to plant vegetables, but am afraid of the contaminated soil.
I need help, my beautiful cats keep using my garden beds as a litter box. Any suggestions would be helpful. Thank you. KCRC
I was wondering how I can keep neighborhood cats from using my flower garden for outdoor litter box. What I can do to deter that?
I need a deterrent to keep a cat from pooing in my garden. I am looking for something which can survive a few days in a damp/wet climate.
New neighbors moved in next door and have a cat. I have 3 dogs. My dogs are either in my backyard (walled), or if I take them out they are on leashes.
I was reading on my cat calendar how cats hate the smell of chamomile and the smell of marigolds and if you plant those in your garden the cats won't dig in the garden much.
How do you keep neighbourhood cats out of the garden? It's fenced and they keep coming over.
How can I keep the neighboor's cat out of my garden? Tips for keeping cats out of your garden.
How can I keep the neighboor's cat out of my garden?
My problem is my neighbor's CATS. Don't get me wrong, I do love cats, just not in my back yard. I have an old dog but would not want to use anything that would either hurt my dog or the cats.
I have several cats in the neighborhood that come and go in my garden. Is there a natural remedy of something I can put in my garden to keep them out.
One of the things I have done, is to put regular balloons out in the garden. The cats will pop them and then run away.
I recently made a new area of the garden "mine". The cats had been using this as a cat box in the past (or so I think). Any ideas to keep them away?
