How do you keep cats out of a vegatable garden?

Answer 1

You are going to have a very tough time first of all. I had the exact same problem with neighbor cats and strays coming into my garden the year before last and taking craps and digging etc. Here is what I did: First, last year I did not till! I just dug holes for the plants that I had sprouted or bought and inserted them in the ground and kept the garden weeded very good every weekend. Here is why this works: Cats love to dig in FRESH, recently tilled dirt! If you have recently tilled or if the ground has been overturned very much, cats are extremely attracted by this! Farmers have been doing "no-till" planting for quite a few years here in Ohio trying to prevent soil erosion, but I tried it for my backyard garden and cats have TOTALLY evacuated my yard since I stopped turning over the dirt to plant. Hope this helps

Answer 2

To be truthful there is not any longer a lot you're able to do. Cats will consistently bypass to. extremely some repellents declare to scare cats away yet in my experience hardly do. you need to get a canine however the cats will bypass to the backyard whilst its no longer around. The peel from end result located strategically e.g. bananas and oranges seem to have an result as cats do no longer basically like the scent. utilising opposite psychology I easily have planted cat nip interior the backyard interior the theory that cats won't mess in a backyard with their prevalent narcotic in it. It labored for extremely a jointly as till sooner or later one cat messed on the cat nip! My present day trick is putting branches over vegetable plots. Its working properly, the cats are no longer digging away there. even nevertheless, the final i will arise with is that i've got have been given a large persian cat and he sleeps outdoors interior the summertime and scares the different cats away!

Answer 3

The least invasive way is a repellant (chile powder, jalapeno juice, other spices) around the bases of the plant that will not effect the plant's growth. Cats ESPECIALLY hate chile powder, but it will need to be reapplied after a rain. Fencing and other objects are invasive and cats CAN be smarter than that.

Often, cats just like vegetation (our love the poisonous cala lillies in our house). Repellants are the only effective method we have found (but I guess broken glass and other evil methods might work but we haven't tried those!).

Answer 4

The following is from the Purina Website. The site clearly lists Mothballs as a potential poison whereas cats are concerned. The use of mothballs is NOT recommended.


Buy some cheap "jacks" (the game you played when a child) and put a few around on top of the dirt on your plants. Cats do not like things that poke. I keep the neighbors cat from lying in my flower beds by sticking some small sticks in the soil. The cat doesn't even come near the area anymore, she knows it is not a good place to lay down.

Water Spray : Newspaper wouldn't deter my cats. I keep several spray bottles around with water. I used to mix it but vinegar I got it in one of the darling's eyes and I'll never forget the pain on his face, even though he's been dead for years. I just spray them with plain water now, sometimes ice water. This is a great way to break up fights too, even with dogs. We call it "Dampening their enthusiasm."

Nylon Netting : For keeping cats out of the soil of big potted house plants, try this. Buy some nylon netting at the fabric store, brown or black would blend in best, and cut it in a circle to fit on the pot (with a slit from one side to the middle). Slide it around the plant and lay on top of the dirt. Water and fertilizer can still reach the roots, and the cat doesn't like the texture of the netting and won't climb or dig in the dirt.

My mother used to have a problem with neighborhood cats; they used to come into her yard all the time and they would jump over the fence and trample all over her flower beds. Someone suggested that she use fox urine. You can get special containers for liquid fox urine. Just hang them on the plant, or sprinkle the powdered stuff on the dirt around it. It's very expensive, but it works, and it is completely nontoxic.
A cheaper remedy might be sprinkling very hot pepper powder around the plant. A neighbor of mine used to mix up a concoction of the juice from garlic jars and ultra hot pepper powder which she diluted with water and sprayed on the plants. Animals can smell the stuff from quite a distance and it scares them away.

I used to have a cat, and one of the ways that I trained her to stay away from my plants was by spraying her with a plant mister whenever she went near them.

Another thing I would do was roll up a newspaper and hit the floor with it. Cats have very sensitive hearing. It bothered her greatly. It didn't take her very long to realize that there were consequences for playing with my plants, and she stopped quickly. I never had trouble with her and the plants again.

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Trilochan Kaur
www.gardeningcare.co.nr

Answer 5

put a loose wire fence around the plants. keep it close enough to the plants that the cats can't jump it and land of firm ground. I would stay away from fences that they could climb.
if that doesn't work , find out why they are going in, and try to change it. my cat likes to roll in the dust between the plants, and was snapping them off at the base. if that is your problem, you have to get rid of that dusty spot with a few well placed bricks, or something else.

Answer 6

With my high powered Tippmann A5 paintball gun, loaded with neon green Marbalizers. It scares the !@#$ out of the cats that like to use my raised beds as their oversized kitty litter box. Plus I feel better seeing them run off painted neon green, hoping it deters them from doing it again. :)

If you have a water source nearby, a more humane way to deal with them is the motion activated scarecrow/sprinkler that blasts them with water.

Answer 7

you can go to a pet smart or any lowes and they sell these pellets that you can put in your garden that keeps cats dogs deers and other animals out and it will not kill them just replele them away.

Answer 8

Pinecones.

Answer 9

Big dogs

Answer 10

I've heard orange peels work...or citrus of some kind....