Hi....am new to this forum and realtively new to gardening, hello to you all!

This is probably a question that has been answered many times before but we are having a big problems with a cat, or cats using the garden as their toilet.

My mother in law is a keen gardener and after today even she is perplexed about how to help.

When we moved in last year the garden was quite over grown and so far last autumn and this spring we have spent a lot of time in the front and back garden creating flower beds. Of course the pull of freshly dug soil is very appealing to cats and when we put in the first batch of bulbs etc for this spring we were finding the plants and bulbs being dug up and finding what you would expect to come out of an animals bottom in their place.

We started to put in plants grown from cuttings and every day we come home to find them dug up and animal dirt left behind. So far we have tried cat pepper, silent roar, orange peel, tea bags with olbas oil on them and bottles of water. Each worked for about a week at a time and then the same happens again. We have just about cleared out my mother in laws greenhouse of cuttings!

We resorted at the weekend to covering the areas with netting, but guess what? We came home today to find three areas of netting ripped aside, plants dug up and the usual excrement in their place.

We are now at a loss as to what else we can try. I have ordered some plants that have an odour that apparently repels cats.

Can anyone help with any other tips?

Many thanks in advance.