[AlaninCarlisle]

Can anyone recommend a cat-deterrent, chemical or otherwise that I can spray/spread onto my recently sown beds please? I am ready for carnage against our own and our neighbour's cats which, the minute my crops are showing and I need to remove the chicken netting that I had laid flat over them as protection, decide to use the area as a lavatory and scratch up all the new seedlings

[Fairy Plotmother]

Shot gun! I've tried all sorts without success.

[azubah]

I cut my DH's hair and he does mine, so I spread the hairs around. I think that puts them off, and the slugs don't like it either.

[mumofstig]

Can anyone recommend a cat-deterrent, chemical or otherwise that I can spray/spread onto my recently sown beds please? I am ready for carnage against our own and our neighbour's cats which, the minute my crops are showing and I need to remove the chicken netting that I had laid flat over them as protection, decide to use the area as a lavatory and scratch up all the new seedlings

I have to net veg beds in my garden, not particularly attractive I know, but the only thing that seems to work.

[Plumby]

Coffee grounds.  I've sprinkled it on my beds and so far with success.

I nabbed about 10kg from Costa which helps.

[mrs bouquet]

I buy lion poo, its not in a raw state, it's treated and comes in round pellets.  It works everytime, I just use it about 2/3 times throughout the year.  Brilliant.  Check it out on Google, I get it from Primrose, but there are other places.  Good luck, Mrs Bouquet

[AlaninCarlisle]

I could only find Lion Poo on line which meant that I'd have to wait until next week to get some , by which time I'd be muderous, so drove into Carlisle to Pets at Home and bought some stuff called Get Off at £8 a plastic jar. Will report back on its effectiveness

[Blewit]

Curry powder works for me.

[ghost61]

We use a sensor detector attached to a water jet.  It's battery operated and seems to do the job - trouble is the cat just goes in the front garden instead!

[mrs bouquet]

I just had a look at the lion poo packet, it is called 'Roaring Success'  Mrs Bouquet

[al78]

Bramble branches laid across the beds you want to protect. The cat will not rummage around where they will get a sharp thorn in their paw, and if they do, they quickly learn not to do it again.

[Mum2mj]

I just had a look at the lion poo packet, it is called 'Roaring Success'  Mrs Bouquet

Does this also work with foxes?

[mrs bouquet]

There are foxes around the gardens, but not in mine.  I never considered the lion poo deterring them, but perhaps that's what it is.  Mrs B

[8doubles]

Have a look on Youtube , Jack Russell and lion cubs !

[Paul Plots]

I've had no problem with the neighbours' cats for ages. Where they were once frequently "visiting" even the front lawn is "visit" free

How?

Simples: My son and daughter-in-law moved into the bungalow where my veg plots are and they brought their two cats with them!! One is a posh-job cat and rarely goes out. The other is a once-was-feral cat so nothing dares wander onto her patch.... and my veg patch is left untouched... apart from the odd rolling about in the empty dry patches to sunbathe.