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CATS!!
I have a question about gardening and roses. I ahve a particular
problem with cats messing up my expensive roses. Does anyone know what I can do to keep the cats away. I have tied everything, but I do not want to hurt the cats. Thank you |
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Andy wrote:
I have a question about gardening and roses. I ahve a particular problem with cats messing up my expensive roses. How exactly do they mess them up? Cats don't usually bother roses. Does anyone know what I can do to keep the cats away. I have tied everything, but I do not want to hurt the cats. Thank you Try a motion detector sprinkler. That'll do it. |
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"Andy" wrote in message
om... I have a question about gardening and roses. I ahve a particular problem with cats messing up my expensive roses. Does anyone know what I can do to keep the cats away. I have tied everything, but I do not want to hurt the cats. Thank you How are they messing up your roses? Serious question. Only thing I've had experience with was a neighbor's cat using my rose soil as a litter box. Suggestions I've read include (but I haven't tried any of these so YMMV): -put chicken wire under the mulch on your rose beds. After a couple times digging in the soil and running into chicken wire, the cat(s) will go elsewhere -orange peels around the roses or rose beds - the smell seems to be offensive to cats Also try a google search of newsgroups for the subject and you'll get bunches more suggestions. I'd use the advanced search, specify this newsgroup or rec.gardens* (since cats disturb other types of plants) and the topic "deterring cats". http://groups.google.com/ HTH - Gail |
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Perhaps you might give us a hint what the cats are doing to your roses,
Andy??? Are they "spraying" the roses? Digging them up? Using the dirt for a litter box? Are you sure the problem is from cats, and not dogs??? Note: I know that there are a LOT of reasons not to plant J&P bare-root roses "box and all" but Reason Numero Uno was that my beloved Chessie-Lab dug up the stupid plant because she wanted the box!!! (I am not making this up, sigh....) Anne Lurie Raleigh, NC "Andy" wrote in message om... I have a question about gardening and roses. I ahve a particular problem with cats messing up my expensive roses. Does anyone know what I can do to keep the cats away. I have tied everything, but I do not want to hurt the cats. Thank you |
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If the cats really bug things, try various herbs, Rue comes to mind
first, along the border. Some are not well liked by cats but have no other affect. Rue don't smell that well up close though. ben Andy wrote: I have a question about gardening and roses. I ahve a particular problem with cats messing up my expensive roses. Does anyone know what I can do to keep the cats away. I have tied everything, but I do not want to hurt the cats. Thank you |
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Andy wrote:
I have a question about gardening and roses. I ahve a particular problem with cats messing up my expensive roses. Does anyone know what I can do to keep the cats away. I have tied everything, but I do not want to hurt the cats. Thank you Check with your local pet shop. They should be able steer you to an aerosol cat repellent. Really! I had some for a different reason some years back, and it really worked. Someone told me it was simulated lion ****, and they (the cats) will fear that they are trspassing on a big guy's territory. This is not a joke. Rich in Denver |
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Andy wrote:
I have a question about gardening and roses. I ahve a particular problem with cats messing up my expensive roses. Does anyone know what I can do to keep the cats away. I have tied everything, but I do not want to hurt the cats. Thank you Cut lengths of bamboo pole (the thin ones) at a 45 degree angle, and stick them in the soil at about 3" intervals and 6" sticking out of the ground. That helps to prevent cats (and raccoons, my favorite pest) from getting too close to things, resting under plants, or defecating (since cats want to go into a squat position, the stakes need to be high enough and frequent enough to prevent the behavior). ....pat. -- Pat and Ash http://www3.sympatico.ca/patash/ Pat blogs at http://patsgreenthumb.blogspot.com/ Ash blogs as Michael Court at http://conceptions.blogspot.com/ |
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