Few people are not annoyed by having stray Caterpillar cruise their peak bed . A purring cat in your lap is one thing . Having one dig up your flower is another . There are numerous remedies for keeping uninvited felid at a aloofness .
Flowers to Plant
true cat do n’t wish the odor of lavender , absinthe , stinker thyme , sorrow or geranium . Plant those among your flowers . Cats are alleged not to wish the smell of marigold , which are pretty flowers and good to have if they keep cats off .
Hot and Smelly Stuff
Mix five parts of flour with two parts of cayenne common pepper and three parts dry mustard , and sprinkle the potpourri among your flowers . Scattering fateful common pepper or cayenne pepper among your flowers will keep cat away , but these pepper are expensive , and you have to reapply them after it rains .
Put a handful of habanera or other hot chili pepper and a few bulbs of garlic into a quart of water and blend well . Spray this on your flowers . Cats are also put off by teatime foliage . Remove the tea leaves from used bags and sparge them around your flowers .
Cats especially hate the odor of citrus fruit . you may get inventive with the use of citrus Robert Peel if you have a liquidizer . Buzz up the peels gamboge , quicklime , tangerine tree , Citrus paradisi or orange Robert Peel and scatter them around your flowers . As they drop off their potency , bombinate a fresh round .
Cats do n’t care the smelling of ammonia . fill up babe food or other small jars with a combining of ammonia and urine and forget them among your flowers with the rim level with the soil .
Barriers and Annoyances
you may fence in off your flowers with a lattice barrier . To halt cats from digging , put compressed river stones in the portion of the efflorescence bed where you do n’t want them get the picture . If you may get it , mulch your flower with crack hazelnuts . That ’s sharp on the feet of cat , and they do n’t care it .
secular concrete reinforcing wire across the entrances to the arena where you have flowers . Spray this with eucalyptus tree oil or aniseed oil . Cats are put off by the scent and do n’t care pick their mode across the openings in the wire .
High Tech
Cats hate to get wet . If you’re able to afford it , tie a motion detector to a sprinkler . When the cat saunter invited into your flowers , it gets squiffy .
you may buy an ultrasound gadget that is apparent movement - activated . It emits a sound that you ca n’t hear but that drives CAT nuts .
Canine Tech
Barking dogs are plaguey , but they keep cats away .
