Keep Cats Away From Vegetable Garden

Keep cats away from your garden by making a separate part of the yard that is ok for them to use as a litterbox.

Keep cats away from vegetable garden. Last week barbara wrote about growing plants that cats will love a delightful way to indulge your favorite pet. Use scent to keep the cats away cats dislike the smell of rue lavender and pennyroyal coleus canina and lemon thyme. Plant some catnip nearby for them to enjoy. Plant these between your other plants.

The clips can be placed around vegetables or clip right to the stem of plants. Cats reportedly don t like the smell of dried blood found in blood meal fertilizer or citrus. As long as it is low voltage it will not harm the cats only drive them away. Put containers with mothballs in your garden while mothballs can be extremely toxic to both cats and dogs they can be safely used as a cat repellent to keep stray cats out of your yard.

However not everyone has such a positive relationship with cats in the garden. The fence can be raised about 4 inches 10 cm from the ground and still discourage them from entering your garden. Plant a few of these throughout the garden. These animals hate water so if you want to keep cats away from your garden a good option is to have a hose or to install an automatic sprinkler in your garden.

Interplanting can attract pollinators and other beneficial insects too. Mulching your vegetable beds with coarse mulch will annoy cats as they don t like the texture. You can place several mothballs in a glass container poking holes in the lid and place in areas that you want to keep cats out. Look for electric fencing at hardware or home supply stores.

Having a row of. Water won t harm cats but will scare them off. An electric fence surrounding your garden can effectively keep cats out of it. One of cats natural enemies is water.

Cats and dogs do not particularly like the smell of garlic so placing garlic clips throughout your vegetable garden is a great way to keep them away. You ll still have to clean up but everything will be contained. Use peels of oranges lemons limes and grapefruit in your garden. For those of us gardening in urban or suburban areas they can seem more of a nuisance when our specially prepared vegetable beds become the local toilet for the neighborhood felines.

Chicken wire laid on top of the soil and covered with mulch will also prevent cats from digging but. Other plants recommended for keeping cats away from yards are rue lavender which is also a deer resistant plant and pennyroyal. The garlic aroma is also good for deterring deer and rabbits.