In addition to all the other problems with the garden, my site is constantly in focus cat. I myself have nothing against animals do not have, let walk as they wish, but only to the beds are not trampled. So that there is trampled, they also go to the toilet, all ripped, and then buried, but also calm down and lie directly on the seedlings.
Previously, the cats had a little, so I do not worry too much. Banish a couple of times, and yell like a longer walk. But three years ago, new neighbors, across from the site and began a nightmare. I even went to swear, but the good of this is not enough, they say, "we do not put them on a leash, make the fence." And what am I going to do all around the area iron fence? He is so small, the light will not completely.
In the new neighbors were two cats, both young and frisky. So they then turned my site at this landfill. You sit in the morning, eat, and see how the first out of the bushes runs a gray issue, and through all the beds rushing breaking bow, greenfinch, cabbage. And her second, is already on the other bed. Sometimes heard was like crunches and breaks the bow. At such times as much wanted to cry.
What to do, I decided to look for ways to discourage cats walk around the garden beds. A friend advised me to mulch the ground pine cones and needles. But how to handle a bed and care for plants, if everything is filled up this prickly debris. To me it is also not nice when the needles are pricked, and the bumps are scattered throughout the site.
Bad experience with the grid
Decided to pull over the beds of fine mesh. Hammered around the landing pegs through them handed a thick twine and after all this is covered mesh. Process was inconvenient, especially watered at the roots. But, like the beds trample stopped.
One morning, I leave the house and saw the cat - dig my potatoes (Potatoes, I had not yet laying) I decided to scare off her. - "Kyyshshsh" and ran at her. She tore straight through the beds with mesh, confused, frustrated grid, on a bed tossing - all broke. Oh them, the grid I thought (And not comfortable and if the cat gets confused, then suffers all the bed) and removed. We must find another way.
motion sensor and water attack
I read on the Internet that have 100% way to get rid of cats - to make water curtain. In fact, it is an automatic irrigation system that makes small fountains around the beds. Cats are afraid of water, like a fire, so the method has seemed effective. Made around the same beds are dispensers and included them in the least. What would the water and not spend and do not pour the flower bed and scare away cats.
This curtain of water in a day flooded all the furrows between the beds. Maybe for lawns in America and this method works, but in our Leningrad swamp all the worse it becomes.
The Internet is also offered to install a motion sensor. When a cat is coming to a bed, the water is turned on. That's good, but if in a bed will I? Me too obolet water?
I even offered to get a dog. Oh no, I thought. If my cats except the beds begin to trample another dog, I just can not stand.
What really helped me
That pungent smells deter cats, I knew for a long time. But the method helps only in the first few weeks. Then, whether the cat get used to the smell Tolley ran out of steam.
Therefore, I decided to alternate repellent odors in the following sequence:
- Peel of orange and lemon - 2 weeks;
- Slices of onion or garlic - 2 weeks;
- Dry mustard and mint - 2 weeks;
Next circle repeats. That is, the alternate repellent smells every 2 weeks. And it finally helped!
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