damm cats!!!

i have sowed some parsnips beetroot and some radish they have started to grow in a big pot trouble is next doors cat keeps pooping in the pot ive put cat repelent down but has not done anything still poop there ive covered it with plastic now but is there anyway of stopping that damm cat!!!???

• and will the veg still grow without sunlight??

 

I use chicken wire over large tubs of my wild flower seedlings..maximum light..zero squat waste.I also use it aroung the trunks of my trees and large shrubs to foil the beasts claw sharpening!!

 

Sorry, how remiss not to say hello gandygardener!..Welcome to G-C.
I see we both like to stitch metal together

 

hello paldin good idea ive got some rabbit wire left over from a chicken coop project i never finished.yes unfortunatly now the nice weather is coming stuck under a mask fumes smoke sweat?? must be mad

 

I use orange peel. When you've peeled your oranges, just sprinkle the peel over the tops of the tubs. You need to chnage it regularly - you get about a week at most out of it - but it keeps my local cats away. And oranges are good for you! I did see something very interesting online - you can also buy lion droppings which the cats smell and won't come anywhere near! I guess that I wouldn't either so not really willing to try that one.

 

Gun fodder!!!!! comes to mind.I have trouble in my front garden with cats digging around, sorry not a cat lover,

 

I do like cats but they are a nuisance. I've made some kind of cloches/mini tunnels with big hoops of wire over my veg beds, mostly to stop the cats. The tops of the hoops are tied to a horizontal bamboo cane, and a vertical cane is cut short and the horizontal one tied to that. Then I put pea/fruit netting over the top (or fleece to stop carrot fly or clear plastic for tender crops) and pegged down round the sides with short pieces of wire. They only cost a few pounds to make and do seem to work, although the fleece one isn't as good as the mesh at the moment (probably need a bigger piece of fleece).
I'll try and take a picture which might explain it better, but I think you could adapt this fairly easily for pots.

 

We use twigs and just lay them across the drills. They have to be long sharp and pointy for it to work well.

 

thanks for the replys ive put some rabbit mesh over the pots now i think this will work hopefully.

 

Has anyone tried the sonic guns /repellors that are advertised , they are on the costly side but if they work i`ll be buying .

 

I stick sharp bits of cane upright in the soil....if they can't squat they can't poo!!! :D Haven't yet seen a cat with an obvious cane injury.....but you never know!!!!!! :D :D

 

well i think the mesh has worked no poop for 2 days so hopefullly thats done the trick :D

 

Sorry if this offends anyone, but a pump action water pistol from Woolies for a fiver works for me !

Cats just hate getting wet!

 

lol, some intresting methods here. I haven't yet had problems with the cats but i've heard that if you leave 2 litre clear plastic bottles filled with water on your garden it scares the cats away.

 

I hung some cd's from my runner bean canes to scare the birds - which is working a treat.

As a bonus - I've not seen a cat in the garden since then, maybe they dont like the reflection either ?