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Hiya
Does anyone know of a good one please? I have 3 cats using my flowerbed as a litter tray. I have a lavender bush growing and I different varieties of mint, none of the smells seems to bother them.
Thanks

fill some 2 ltr pop bottles with water and lay them on there sides in your flowerbed

Hi Kerry,
Thanks for that tip but I havent really got room to do that as I have loads of tomato and chilli plants growing! Really need something smelly that I can sprinkle on the soil. Do the bottles of water frighten them then?

I tried the water bottle thing - it is supposed to deter dogs too - and I just sat wide eyed and totally unimpressed when the neighbours dog lifted a leg on one....

You can try spraying your toms with a garlic spray, which won't hurt them or sprinkling curry powder or cayenne pepper across the beds. Or let the cat keep its spot... cats tend to return to the same spot, but if there are three then that could be a bit much spacewise. Once they start they are hard to move on, but if you are cheeky, you might want to shovel the dirt out of your bed and put it in a more appropriate spot (neighbours bed, maybe ) They will return to their scent.

pepper powder works ok but has to be replaced after rain. I take a pair of shears to a nearby holly bush and then sprinkle the clippings on the bed. Lasts for ages and the cats won't walk on it 'cos it hurts their tootsies.

Iv also heard that cats do not like Oranges, the smell i belive~

Save your orange peel and scatter around the area~

best results ive had is tea bags soaked in jeyes fluid or my big dog.

Now then... water bottles filled and laid on their sides... I was told that this was a joke... but it hit our local paper a good few years back and everywhere you went you saw a bottle in the garden. Kept a few bottles out of landfill I suppose LOL

orange peel.. I thought that worked but was proved wrong...

teabags... not tried soaking them in jeyes fluid, but I guess the dog would be a good deterrent


Ahhh tomatoes... now, someone (it was either on this forum or on the green living board) said something about the smell of tomatoes smelling like cat pee and that the cat was scratching to cover up the smell...

I love the holly idea - but do remember that it's there when you are digging/weeding etc or you could get sore fingers :D

We've used peasticks with some success in our herb/salad planter.

Shirlz2005 wrote:I love the holly idea - but do remember that it's there when you are digging/weeding etc or you could get sore fingers :D

Ah, diddums. ;-)

I just lay mine on the surface, does a whole year and then you remove it in the spring. Pea sticks help but you need enough of them to occlude any potential crapping spaces. That's a lot of sticks! I've laced through them with string in the past too which also helps. The name of this game is to make the crapping space less attractive than somewhere else. After all, cat's gotta go somewhere.

Verminda Spirit wrote:Iv also heard that cats do not like Oranges, the smell i belive~

Save your orange peel and scatter around the area~

Our plays in our orange tree so he obviously hasn't heard that one

Nev

(sorry VS)

Thanks everyone for the tips - I shall work my way thru them all and let u know which one works - altho havent got any holly so cant do that one!

hedgewizard wrote:

Shirlz2005 wrote:I love the holly idea - but do remember that it's there when you are digging/weeding etc or you could get sore fingers :D

Ah, diddums. ;-)

I just lay mine on the surface, does a whole year and then you remove it in the spring. Pea sticks help but you need enough of them to occlude any potential crapping spaces. That's a lot of sticks! I've laced through them with string in the past too which also helps. The name of this game is to make the crapping space less attractive than somewhere else. After all, cat's gotta go somewhere.

diddums

Got lots of sticks.... and blooming cats have got acres of open countryside to do what they've got to do lol.... Anyway... not much space left in the planter now... hooorahhhh!!

Could always bung a big net over the lot of course.

I could do I suppose but the flowerbed is right outside my house and whilst it would be practical, Im not sure it would look so nice. I also have pots on there with my lemon and grapefruit trees so fitting a net might not be too easy. Might have to resort to the net if the other options fail tho!

Also try keeping a water-pistol handy, and shoot the blighters whenever they poo in your garden. Not practical for allotments, of course, but you said the garden is outside your house, so it could work

Naah. You have to understand how the devious feline brain works - being shot by a water pistol doesn't teach them not to crap in the flower bed - just to avoid you. Cats are patient, observant, and *whispers* not all that bright.