Cats make wonderful companions in the home, yet can be detrimental to flower gardens. Cats love digging into flowerbeds to dig out holes they use as outdoor litter boxes.
Making your garden less appealing to cats is an easy and effective way to spend your weekends tending to your flowers instead of picking up feline turds. Try adding coarse mulch or plastic fencing as ways of deterring cats while making digging more challenging.
Electric Fence
As an alternative to repellent sprays, electric fences may help deter cats from your flower garden. These products use small shocks when cats come near, making them uncomfortable and discouraging them from returning. Though harmless for cats themselves, repeated contact could become annoying for you.
Other products to help keep cats away from your flower beds include prickly mats and cat-repelling plants. You may find such products available at home and hardware supply stores; you could also make your own such as spreading orange or lemon peels around flower beds or using something called the Cat Scat Mat – which contains plastic mesh with 3/4″ spikes intended to repel cats – in your flower beds.
Plant cat-repelling herbs or flowers like rosemary, thyme, rue, lavender and Russian sage to deter felines. Their strong fragrance acts as an effective deterrent; you could also sprinkle dried versions or essential oils that contain these scents around flowerbeds to have the same effect.
Motion Sprinklers
Cats may find flower beds irresistibly tempting, yet they can easily gain entry to gardens and other areas they should not. An activated motion sprinkler system can be an effective deterrent against cats entering flower beds by spraying water that startsles and startsle-squirts them, leaving an unpleasant memory of your garden behind them.
Another effective solution for covering flower beds with mesh cloth is using it as an accent piece – it won’t detract from the aesthetic of your garden and installation should be simple!
Planting several herb and flower species known to deter cats is another effective way to keep cats at bay without ruining the beauty of your garden. Examples include lavender, lemon thyme, rue and pennyroyal which may also attract beneficial pollinators which will ensure that your garden flourishes with plenty of blooms and create healthy environments.
Scarecrow
There are various methods available for keeping cats out of your flower garden that don’t involve fencing or chemicals, like spreading coffee grounds in your flowerbed – cats hate their scent and will therefore avoid your blooms! One such approach could be spreading coffee grounds across your flowerbed to deter cats.
Your garden might benefit from using an ancient scare device: the scarecrow. Farmhands often employ human-shaped decoys to deter birds from eating their crops; this same tactic can be implemented effectively in your own garden. To increase its effectiveness even further, try filling it with materials unappetizing to cats – fragrant herbs and spices or mothballs might work great here!
Keep cats away from your garden using tape. It is a cost-effective solution that works by surprising cats and making them jump back up suddenly – plus, this nontoxic method won’t harm any flowers in your garden!
Tape
Cats may be playful creatures, but they can be destructive when it comes to your flower garden. Cats will dig up flowers for litter boxes or nibble on some plants if left alone for too long, making the garden unpleasant for cats or using items with strong odors to drive them away from the space. By employing some clever strategies you can keep these feline visitors out. Creating physical barriers, making the garden unpleasant or using strong-scented items are effective tools and techniques you can protect your flowers from feline visitors.
Use of duct tape balls placed strategically around your garden is an inexpensive and nontoxic way to surprise cats who enter it. This tactic works particularly well on urns or window boxes used by cats as lookout posts; its sticky surface will cling tightly against their fur and prevent them from seeing where their jump up will land when jumping up.
One inventive solution is scattering coffee grounds among your flowerbeds; their strong aroma should deter even the most determined cat. But this solution may need to be repeated regularly as its effect will fade over time.