Stop cats using your garden as a toilet

[Carltonian Man]

I know the subject of stopping cats from using the veg patch as a litter tray has been covered on numerous threads already but this cure has been working for me since last autumn so I thought I'd share. Bladderwrack chopped up and spread lightly over the soil. It doesn't seem to matter whether it dries out and goes crispy or is wet and leathery, the cats keep clear of it. Couldn't say whether it works with any type of seaweed, I've only used this the once (and unfortunately it doesn't stop the local fox from trampling about).
Additional benefits, plants like it and earthworms love it. Just make sure it's really well rinsed in fresh water first to remove the salt.

[liskeardjane]

You can stop the foxes by leaving a human smell, HFW put hair in an old pair of tights and hung them up, you could also pee near there yourself

[MuddyWitch]

As you live in Nottingham...where the heck are you getting the bladder wrack from?!!!

MW

PS. Only asking 'cos I miss seaweed mulch

[Carltonian Man]

As you live in Nottingham...where the heck are you getting the bladder wrack from?!!!

MW

PS. Only asking 'cos I miss seaweed mulch

Bought a bin bag of it back from Scotland last year. Even soaking in a liquid feed it still smells lovely, (wish I lived near the sea..)

[mrsflibble]

wow, that would mean i could get rid of my strips of cotton covered in citronella oil!

[Carltonian Man]

wow, that would mean i could get rid of my strips of cotton covered in citronella oil!

I've sprinkled it at a rate of about five or six one inch pieces per square foot; it's what was left after soaking in a bucket as liquid feed for the growing season.
For a while I thought maybe cats had stopped visiting our garden and I'd just got lucky but leaving other raised beds for just one night without protective wire mesh proves they're still passing through and are ready as ever to dig in any loose earth.

[Carltonian Man]

You can stop the foxes by leaving a human smell, HFW put hair in an old pair of tights and hung them up, you could also pee near there yourself

Thanks LJ. That seems to have been working well for a couple of weeks now.

[JulieSherris]

You can stop the foxes by leaving a human smell, HFW put hair in an old pair of tights and hung them up, you could also pee near there yourself

Thanks LJ. That seems to have been working well for a couple of weeks now.

I was just wondering, CM........ the hair, or the pee????

[Wombat]

I know this is my answer to everything but: Claymore mines

Nev

[Carltonian Man]

Thanks LJ. That seems to have been working well for a couple of weeks now.

I was just wondering, CM........ the hair, or the pee???? [/quote]

The pee. Much to my eternal sadness I don't have enough hair to scare off a mole

[mrsflibble]

you know what? since i've been getting jim to pee in my compost heap bin thingy, the cat from next door hasn't been over the fence. coinkidink?