Comments on: Keeping Cats Out of the Garden http://teachinggoodthings.com/blog/keeping-cats-out-of-the-garden/ Equipping Families with Practical Skills for Real Life! Mon, 21 May 2012 18:09:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Kathy http://teachinggoodthings.com/blog/keeping-cats-out-of-the-garden/comment-page-1/#comment-9231 Kathy Sun, 21 Jun 2009 02:20:07 +0000 http://teachinggoodthings.com/blog/?p=2526#comment-9231 Wow I am impressed with all the suggestions! I will try the egg shells next. Thanks! Jessica, YES, you're in!!! :o) Kathy Wow I am impressed with all the suggestions! I will try the egg shells next. Thanks!

Jessica,
YES, you’re in!!! :o )

Kathy

]]> By: Karen http://teachinggoodthings.com/blog/keeping-cats-out-of-the-garden/comment-page-1/#comment-9230 Karen Sun, 21 Jun 2009 01:29:46 +0000 http://teachinggoodthings.com/blog/?p=2526#comment-9230 No advice about the cats. Ours always is so grateful when dh tills so he has nice soft ground to dig in. He thinks it's one of the ways we show him we love him. lol My update is posted-finally! http://bluebarnbulletin.blogspot.com/2009/06/garden-update_20.html No advice about the cats. Ours always is so grateful when dh tills so he has nice soft ground to dig in. He thinks it’s one of the ways we show him we love him. lol

My update is posted-finally!

http://bluebarnbulletin.blogspot.com/2009/06/garden-update_20.html

]]> By: Dana http://teachinggoodthings.com/blog/keeping-cats-out-of-the-garden/comment-page-1/#comment-9226 Dana Sat, 20 Jun 2009 02:24:38 +0000 http://teachinggoodthings.com/blog/?p=2526#comment-9226 Our garden is progressing nicely! I scored some FREE pepper plants at the farmers' market last Saturday and they'll go into containers tomorrow. Our pumpkin plants are really taking off and there are several runners. The squash never did come up. Dana Our garden is progressing nicely! I scored some FREE pepper plants at the farmers’ market last Saturday and they’ll go into containers tomorrow. Our pumpkin plants are really taking off and there are several runners. The squash never did come up.

Dana

]]> By: peppylady http://teachinggoodthings.com/blog/keeping-cats-out-of-the-garden/comment-page-1/#comment-9225 peppylady Sat, 20 Jun 2009 01:35:59 +0000 http://teachinggoodthings.com/blog/?p=2526#comment-9225 Don't Kitty love the garden as a sandbox. Coffee is on Don’t Kitty love the garden as a sandbox.

Coffee is on

]]> By: Anna http://teachinggoodthings.com/blog/keeping-cats-out-of-the-garden/comment-page-1/#comment-9222 Anna Fri, 19 Jun 2009 23:37:15 +0000 http://teachinggoodthings.com/blog/?p=2526#comment-9222 Hello Mrs. Brodock! Our cat, Maggie, sometimes gets in the garden. I have not caught her in the garden yet. She does not get in very often so it normally is no problem. If you use lavender, however, it does spread and is a perennial. I hope that you can stop the cats from coming in your garden! The garden is doing well, and I have some blooms on the tomatoes and beans. I also have some pods on the peas. Hello Mrs. Brodock!

Our cat, Maggie, sometimes gets in the garden. I have not caught her in the garden yet. She does not get in very often so it normally is no problem. If you use lavender, however, it does spread and is a perennial. I hope that you can stop the cats from coming in your garden!

The garden is doing well, and I have some blooms on the tomatoes and beans. I also have some pods on the peas.

]]> By: Motherhen68 http://teachinggoodthings.com/blog/keeping-cats-out-of-the-garden/comment-page-1/#comment-9221 Motherhen68 Fri, 19 Jun 2009 23:32:01 +0000 http://teachinggoodthings.com/blog/?p=2526#comment-9221 I had to put a rake over one bed, aluminum foil balls in another, and eggshells all around. I think the aluminum foil balls worked the best. You'd swear that there's not another place in all of our acreage that they can use the bathroom! I had to put a rake over one bed, aluminum foil balls in another, and eggshells all around. I think the aluminum foil balls worked the best. You’d swear that there’s not another place in all of our acreage that they can use the bathroom!

]]> By: God's Dancing Child http://teachinggoodthings.com/blog/keeping-cats-out-of-the-garden/comment-page-1/#comment-9219 God's Dancing Child Fri, 19 Jun 2009 21:54:16 +0000 http://teachinggoodthings.com/blog/?p=2526#comment-9219 How funny! I was just going to add my post about catnip!! ;) Where did Mr Linky go?? At any rate, here's my post for the week! http://dancingamonginfiniteloveyahwehs.blogspot.com/2009/06/loving-catnip.html How funny! I was just going to add my post about catnip!! ;)
Where did Mr Linky go??

At any rate, here’s my post for the week!
http://dancingamonginfiniteloveyahwehs.blogspot.com/2009/06/loving-catnip.html

]]> By: karyn http://teachinggoodthings.com/blog/keeping-cats-out-of-the-garden/comment-page-1/#comment-9217 karyn Fri, 19 Jun 2009 19:56:09 +0000 http://teachinggoodthings.com/blog/?p=2526#comment-9217 I place crushed up eggshells around the plants and this seems to deter the cats, the chickens, and the slugs. I have also used the hose trick. I place crushed up eggshells around the plants and this seems to deter the cats, the chickens, and the slugs. I have also used the hose trick.

]]> By: Nancy http://teachinggoodthings.com/blog/keeping-cats-out-of-the-garden/comment-page-1/#comment-9216 Nancy Fri, 19 Jun 2009 17:52:35 +0000 http://teachinggoodthings.com/blog/?p=2526#comment-9216 Mrs. Brodock, Are we entered in your June give away? Let me know if not so we can enter! When is the drawing! Jessica Pritchett Mrs. Brodock,
Are we entered in your June give away?
Let me know if not so we can enter! When is the drawing!
Jessica Pritchett

]]> By: Stephenie http://teachinggoodthings.com/blog/keeping-cats-out-of-the-garden/comment-page-1/#comment-9215 Stephenie Fri, 19 Jun 2009 16:49:00 +0000 http://teachinggoodthings.com/blog/?p=2526#comment-9215 Here's my link for this week! As I near the end of this pregnancy, I'll have to have the children doing more of the garden work, so I hope to have lots of pictures for you later this summer. We'll be out of town again next week, so my next update won't be until July 3rd. Here’s my link for this week! As I near the end of this pregnancy, I’ll have to have the children doing more of the garden work, so I hope to have lots of pictures for you later this summer. We’ll be out of town again next week, so my next update won’t be until July 3rd.

]]> By: Deb http://teachinggoodthings.com/blog/keeping-cats-out-of-the-garden/comment-page-1/#comment-9214 Deb Fri, 19 Jun 2009 16:09:27 +0000 http://teachinggoodthings.com/blog/?p=2526#comment-9214 We have 2 cats we love dearly, but every spring when we plant, mulch, etc, I KNOW they think we just created giant litter boxes for them! Our solution that works wonderfully (after trying EVERYTHING) is artfully laying 6-12" cuttings from a very thorny bush such that they can't avoid stepping on them. They learn very fast they don't want to go into that area. We bought 2 bushes for just that, sorry I don't remember their name. I started with rose stem cuttings, but couldn't get enough of them. As for hurting their feet, we've been doing this over 6 years and have never had any injuries. We figure they roam everywhere and probably step on worse. Hope that helps! Solved our problem! We have 2 cats we love dearly, but every spring when we plant, mulch, etc, I KNOW they think we just created giant litter boxes for them! Our solution that works wonderfully (after trying EVERYTHING) is artfully laying 6-12″ cuttings from a very thorny bush such that they can’t avoid stepping on them. They learn very fast they don’t want to go into that area. We bought 2 bushes for just that, sorry I don’t remember their name. I started with rose stem cuttings, but couldn’t get enough of them.

As for hurting their feet, we’ve been doing this over 6 years and have never had any injuries. We figure they roam everywhere and probably step on worse.

Hope that helps! Solved our problem!

]]> By: Kimberly Eddy http://teachinggoodthings.com/blog/keeping-cats-out-of-the-garden/comment-page-1/#comment-9212 Kimberly Eddy Fri, 19 Jun 2009 15:08:31 +0000 http://teachinggoodthings.com/blog/?p=2526#comment-9212 Hi Kathy, I have garlic, lavender, and lots of coffee grounds in my garden, but my cats still go in there...but in some ways I don't mind, as they catch the moles and other pests that eat my stuff. Thankfully they don't dig around in my garden beds. I think this is because whenever I have caught on in the garden in the past, I have taken a hose to them, and given them a squirt in the rear end. After doing this diligently all summer, my own cats don't dig around in the beds, and no one else's cats come near my yard because my cats chase them off. Hi Kathy, I have garlic, lavender, and lots of coffee grounds in my garden, but my cats still go in there…but in some ways I don’t mind, as they catch the moles and other pests that eat my stuff.

Thankfully they don’t dig around in my garden beds. I think this is because whenever I have caught on in the garden in the past, I have taken a hose to them, and given them a squirt in the rear end. After doing this diligently all summer, my own cats don’t dig around in the beds, and no one else’s cats come near my yard because my cats chase them off.

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