Physical barriers are the ONLY way to stop them. The skewers or bamboo canes will work nicely. Any sprays or the like will wash away and are a waste of money and time. Buy some cheap bamboo canes and place them around the area where they walk and they will clear off, especially if they are pooping in a flower bed.
I stand by my method. Cats like to poop where there is open ground. A bare winter border is perfect for them. All you need to do is put lots of bamboo or sticks or whatever to physically stop them from getting to bare earth areas. You can remove them as bulbs/perennials grow. Simple, cheap and from experience effective.
You are wasting time and money on smells (it washes away after a few hours), gadgets (why bother spending £40?)
Dove, I agree. I have owned cats and loved them, but at the moment, where I live, it is the birds that I am worried about. In the last 18 months, I have only seen 1 starling instead of 20 or 30 and the numbers of Finches are down dramatically. When I see a cat walking along the fence eyeing the birds feeding from the seeds I put out for them. I run out into the garden clapping my hands loudly and the cat flees. Do this enough times and they don't come round anymore. But I doubt this would wok in an urban or sub-urban situation.
We have tried many methods to keep Cats off the garden. They used to only use the front garden but, now they seem to be moving to the back garden. They seem to like to use my raised bed as a toilet so I tried putting tent pegs around for obstacles but I have now just put a large potted plant in their usual spot.
Artjak - when cats come into our garden OH sticks his head out of the studio and barks like a Jack Russell, it usually does the trick. Now I'm home more I'm going to get a powerful water pistol.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I do the same as blairs. Any spare space in my veg plot has bamboo stalks in it, and some pyracantha trimmings.
I've had cats in the past and if encouraged as kittens they will use a designated area in their own garden. The reason we have visits from the two next door is because other than the lawn all areas in their garden are now covered in pebbles. Cat's like to dig & bury, not rake pebbles
I'm not happy at having to be on guard, but no way could I harm them. One of my cats did eat rat poison and survived, I will never forget the trauma of that day. It was so bad I would have rather eaten it myself than watch her.
Sadly OH has asthma and is allergic to both cats and dogs - the noise his chest makes at night if he sleeps in a house where there's a furry pet is most alarming
I've always had dogs and cats (as well as all the other animals that go with a farming childhood). One particular favourite was a min. wire haired dachs x jack russell - she was called Yo-yo and she was brilliant
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
water gun about £3.00 please do put any poison down cat's are love by a family also they keep your bulbs/seeds from being eaten by mice and rats.it's a trade off
if it's so much bother buy a dog or even net your garden off
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I stand by my method. Cats like to poop where there is open ground. A bare winter border is perfect for them. All you need to do is put lots of bamboo or sticks or whatever to physically stop them from getting to bare earth areas. You can remove them as bulbs/perennials grow. Simple, cheap and from experience effective.
You are wasting time and money on smells (it washes away after a few hours), gadgets (why bother spending £40?)
Dove, I agree. I have owned cats and loved them, but at the moment, where I live, it is the birds that I am worried about. In the last 18 months, I have only seen 1 starling instead of 20 or 30 and the numbers of Finches are down dramatically. When I see a cat walking along the fence eyeing the birds feeding from the seeds I put out for them. I run out into the garden clapping my hands loudly and the cat flees. Do this enough times and they don't come round anymore. But I doubt this would wok in an urban or sub-urban situation.
We have tried many methods to keep Cats off the garden. They used to only use the front garden but, now they seem to be moving to the back garden. They seem to like to use my raised bed as a toilet so I tried putting tent pegs around for obstacles but I have now just put a large potted plant in their usual spot.
Artjak - when cats come into our garden OH sticks his head out of the studio and barks like a Jack Russell, it usually does the trick. Now I'm home more I'm going to get a powerful water pistol.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I do the same as blairs. Any spare space in my veg plot has bamboo stalks in it, and some pyracantha trimmings.
I've had cats in the past and if encouraged as kittens they will use a designated area in their own garden. The reason we have visits from the two next door is because other than the lawn all areas in their garden are now covered in pebbles. Cat's like to dig & bury, not rake pebbles
I'm not happy at having to be on guard, but no way could I harm them. One of my cats did eat rat poison and survived, I will never forget the trauma of that day. It was so bad I would have rather eaten it myself than watch her.
We've bought a roll of wire netting and bend lengths to make wire 'cloches' to protect seedbeds from being scratched up by cats. It keeps the birds off seedlings too.https://www.4wire.co.uk/chicken-wire/chicken-wire-900-x-13-x-10mt-3ft-with-1-2-hole-x-32ft-22g.html
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Dove, save your OH's voice - get a Jack Russell; you'll not regret it
Sadly OH has asthma and is allergic to both cats and dogs - the noise his chest makes at night if he sleeps in a house where there's a furry pet is most alarming
I've always had dogs and cats (as well as all the other animals that go with a farming childhood). One particular favourite was a min. wire haired dachs x jack russell - she was called Yo-yo and she was brilliant
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
water gun about £3.00 please do put any poison down cat's are love by a family also they keep your bulbs/seeds from being eaten by mice and rats.it's a trade off
if it's so much bother buy a dog or even net your garden off
James