On Tue, 22 Apr 2003 17:13:01 +0100, auntie_biotic wrote:

Any ideas for stopping cats using not all but a particular part of my
garden?

As others have suggested, thorny prunings work. I've used
gooseberry prunings with success when my own cats were aiming
badly, so to speak.

Another good method involves that low ornamental wire fencing
(really edging) that comes in sections about a foot or so long.
If you push these in at an appropriate spacing, you create an
obstacle course. Kitty, being a lazy sort, will desist. This is a
good method if animals are beating a path where you don't want
one.

If this fencing is allowed to go nicely rusty, it is nearly
invisible; it's how I keep my own cats out of the patch of Crocus
nudiflorus.

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Rodger Whitlock
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada