How can I keep cats and other animals out my garden plant pots?
Question:I have spent quite a bit of time and money getting my garden ready for the summer, however local cats etc seem to have taken to digging up my plants.
Answers:
spray vinager around it. that should keep the cats away.
Try mothballs!
Lemon peel or lots of twigs.
You can put a layer of mesh wire or screen over the dirt in the pot. That take the animals fun away from digging.
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Cayan Pepper does the trick for me.
The best way to keep unwanted creatures out of your garden
is to purchase a packet of "Lion's " poo.it is available from very good garden centres.
Sprinkle onions round the plants or put orange peel round the plants... cats hate the smell and also you are not harming them
Buy a spray can of CANAC, it works wonders. Stopped my dog from constantly uprooting my fuchsias and stopped my cat from removing the seal from around the double glazing.
You could buy some netting to cover the plants or buy some cat repel-ant stuff from the local garden centre
To keep the cats from using the pots as a litterbox, I place pinecones on the top of the dirt. Have used plastic forks stuck into the dirt also, tines up. I also sprinkle the cheap cayanne pepper (from Dollar stores) on the leaves and dirt.
a cheap and easy way is to fill up clear plastic bottles with water place them in front of the pot because a cat will not pass its own reflection
put some spikes in them so when the cats try to get in the they feel that spike instead.
Cats don't like the smell of orange peel so try chopping up some of this and scattering it in your pots
Stick some twigs in the pots upright,They will not walk on them.
citrus..they dont like the smell...use orange peel or something of the sort :D
Buy some decorating stones or shingle and arrange on the pots. Or discretely add some small sticks around the pot to make it impossible to stand in (for a cat anyway). This works well and looks better than the garden being full of the contents of your bin.
there is a hose on the market that comes on when any thing is in the area similar to an out side light it will get rid of your unwonted guests
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