Cats can cause significant damage to flowerbeds by digging (and leaving unwelcome deposits), using plants for soft napping spots and leaving their own deposits behind. Use safe odor and physical deterrents such as pepper spray to keep cats away before they ruin your blooms.
Scent repellents include ammonia squirted from a water pistol; citrus peels; pipe tobacco and pepper. An alternative solution would be laying chicken wire across your bed and letting it become embedded within the soil around your plants.
Spray Bottle
Cats can damage flower gardens by digging (and leaving unintended deposits), using them as soft napping spots and leaving unwanted deposits behind. Safe odor and physical deterrents may help keep cats at bay from your blooms.
Spraying the garden with citronella, rosemary, mint, sage or other plant oils that repel cats can be an effective method to deter cats. Refreshes of this solution must be performed regularly during wet weather to maintain effectiveness.
Motion-activated devices offer another solution, spraying out bursts of water when they detect movement in your garden and not using any chemicals – perfect for larger areas!
Sprinkler System
Gardening can be rewarding and healthy; the problem lies when your garden becomes the place where cats lounge around or use as litter boxes. Not only is it unsightly and unhealthy for both pets and humans alike, it may even damage plants!
Motion-activated sprinklers can help your cat avoid your flowers by unexpectedly activating themselves when it senses cats approaching a surface that will suddenly burst into action. Cats tend to avoid walking on surfaces that suddenly come alive as it scares them!
Other deterrents for cats to avoid the plants include scattering pine cones or prickly brush/twigs near them, creating rough mulches and using physical barriers that cats dislike. Lavender, thyme and roses with thorns also tend to repel cats from approaching.
Electric Fence
Wire fence systems can deter cats and other animals from raiding your flower garden by creating an incomplete circuit of electricity in the fence; when an animal touches the ground they receive a small shock from an energizer unit which converts electricity from batteries, solar panels or main power sources into microshocks that travel down their spines.
Spray a natural cat repellent available at garden supply stores that contains predator urine on your plants to repel cats from entering. Citrus scents, coffee grounds or pipe tobacco have also proven successful at dissuading cats from entering gardens.
Oscillate Fence
Keep cats away from your flower garden with rough surfaces designed to hurt their paw pads, such as pine cones, rough pebbles or netting. Other effective strategies may include creating homemade scent repellants using ammonia or citrus smells from orange or lemon peels.
As another way of dislodging cats from areas they frequent, washing these areas with detergent could also help. Doing this will remove their scent mark on their preferred camping spot and encourage them to find another spot within your yard for them to settle down in. Motion activated sprinkler systems may also prove effective.
Rough Surfaces
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Another solution is to cover garden beds in rough or prickly materials like pinecones or clippings from roses, holly or raspberries with rough mulch to make digging difficult for cats. If these methods still fail to stop your flower gardens becoming neighborhood cat toilets, try washing away odorous signs with a garden hose – this will disprove their claim on that area and encourage them to seek other locations instead.
Cat-Attracting Plants
Your garden may attract cats, so consider planting some plants that will deter their interest instead. Flowers, herbs or vegetables that make it hard for cats to access should all do the trick.
Coleus caninus (commonly known as catnip) contains scents similar to urine that deter felines from using your flower beds as outdoor litter boxes. You could also plant periwinkles or jasmine, both safe for felines while adding beautiful touches to your yard.
Water
Gardeners often feel unnerved by cats wandering freely around flower beds and gardens. Cats may dig up flowers, soil, grass and more as well as use this area as a litter box, making gardening life very uncomfortable indeed. But there are ways to deter cats without inflicting pain, injury or suffering on either themselves or animals in the area.
Physical barriers like chicken wire and netting are effective means of deterring cats from accessing gardens or flowerbeds, while scattering orange peels or scents that repel cats such as mothballs may also help.