Beaus mum, I have potted up the nepeta now and cut them back and I will try and grow some in containers. If they destroy these then I'm affraid they are out of the garden completely. However there is no saving the love in a mist as all the stems are snapped.
Clarington I would love to put gripper rods or some sort of spikes on the wall but at the back of us we have a family with small children and they can reach the top of the wall. If they jump up it wouldn't go down well with their parents
I honestly didn't know foxes could jump walls though so I'd be very interested to see if that is what's giving me grief! Will get that camera on tonight!
and Gary I wouldn't t bother growing Nepeta if you have cats around. Before I grew it I though nahhhh it will be be fine!! I planted it in 3 seperate parts of the garden and they flattened all 3! I now have very big gaps in the borders I have now got to try and fill
If your garden is fairly small then you could try a water scarecrow to keep cats away. My daughter was having terrible cat mess problems before she installed one. Within a couple of hours of putting it in the cats had got wise to its existence and now they walk along the boundary walls but never come into the garden. The only downside is making sure the humans remember it's on before they venture out!
If you have free range cats and plant nepeta then you are just asking for trouble! But the damage to the other plants does not sound like cats to me. I have a lot of cats going through my garden and don't have any damage. Yes they do leave poos but I just cover them with soil. No biggie. That's all part and parcel of urban gardening.
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Water scarecrow is the way to go - cats, foxes, herons, unwanted visitors of most kinds - just remember to move the sensors regularly so they don't learn the trigger points.
An upturned wire mesh hanging basket over the nepeta till they grow big and strong enough to cope - tho, with all those cats about it's asking for trouble.
On the other hand, I have ought some for my two young cats and they haven't shown the slightest interest - yet.
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Another £1 for me.
Cat poo and fox poo are very different. Check "that" out to find the culprit.
Beaus mum, I have potted up the nepeta now and cut them back and I will try and grow some in containers. If they destroy these then I'm affraid they are out of the garden completely. However there is no saving the love in a mist as all the stems are snapped.
Clarington I would love to put gripper rods or some sort of spikes on the wall but at the back of us we have a family with small children and they can reach the top of the wall. If they jump up it wouldn't go down well with their parents
I honestly didn't know foxes could jump walls though so I'd be very interested to see if that is what's giving me grief! Will get that camera on tonight!
and Gary I wouldn't t bother growing Nepeta if you have cats around. Before I grew it I though nahhhh it will be be fine!! I planted it in 3 seperate parts of the garden and they flattened all 3! I now have very big gaps in the borders I have now got to try and fill
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Around here the urban foxes are adept at scaling and balancing along 6ft fence panels, often spot them sunbathing on the shed roof in the midday sun
Think I've read that FBB in the borders can attract animals to dig the soil. ???
If your garden is fairly small then you could try a water scarecrow to keep cats away. My daughter was having terrible cat mess problems before she installed one. Within a couple of hours of putting it in the cats had got wise to its existence and now they walk along the boundary walls but never come into the garden. The only downside is making sure the humans remember it's on before they venture out!
I'm not sure if it would work for foxes though.
If you have free range cats and plant nepeta then you are just asking for trouble! But the damage to the other plants does not sound like cats to me. I have a lot of cats going through my garden and don't have any damage. Yes they do leave poos but I just cover them with soil. No biggie. That's all part and parcel of urban gardening.
Water scarecrow is the way to go - cats, foxes, herons, unwanted visitors of most kinds - just remember to move the sensors regularly so they don't learn the trigger points.
An upturned wire mesh hanging basket over the nepeta till they grow big and strong enough to cope - tho, with all those cats about it's asking for trouble.
On the other hand, I have ought some for my two young cats and they haven't shown the slightest interest - yet.
I think I'm going to try the water scarecrow!
Can anyone recommend a certain brand?
Thanks
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If a child can reach the top of your wall, it'd be easy peasy for a fox!
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Little bleeders!!
I had no idea!