You have realized your dream: to have a garden, a terrace and to be able to enjoy it! But all of this is turning into a nightmare. For the past few weeks, animals have been coming here to relieve themselves. They get comfortable and destroy almost everything you took weeks, months to grow… leaving the smells… You don’t want to get angry with your neighbors let alone harm these beasts. Solutions are possible! They respect both the animals and your plantations. On the net, you can find everything: sometimes grandmother’s remedies, time-tested, or techniques whose effectiveness seems questionable… To take stock quickly, here are five effective ways to restore your garden to peace and serenity.
Knowing the habits of cats or foxes well, to better thwart their desires, especially when they want to relieve themselves, is a guarantee of effectiveness. Observing the habits of felines and understanding their behavior seems to be the key to success. Chemicals and other cruel treatment are therefore to be excluded. They compromise the well-being of your garden, endanger the children who play there and the animals who visit you.
Do not leave the land free and loose
Cats really like clean places to do their business, such as furniture and gardens. Then you have to react. In this case, the right solution could be mulching. The operation consists of filling the free parts of your garden with shavings, bark or residues of crushed branches or citrus peels.. Cats hate these additions and move on.
You can also opt for veiling, which has several advantages: protecting your plantations from birds and other visitors, as well as discouraging cats.
Intervene on odors
Cats can’t stand certain smells. They hate them and that particularly bothers them. The flagship product? You have already seen it with your grandmother or your parents… You produce it every day at home: coffee grounds. Easy, economical, without any danger of use for yourself, children or even cats, you will be able to use this ancestral remedy in peace and with great efficiency. The felines walk in the coffee grounds, get their paws dirty and make a point of cleaning them! The taste will make them want to come back. An added benefit: the ground cover will keep the plants moist, which will make it that much easier to water them. You just need to take care to maintain this layer. It takes a few weeks for the coffee grounds to degrade and lose their properties: plan a renewal every three weeks or every month.
Vinegar, a natural repellent
Vinegar. Source: spm
Spraying with vinegar can be effective, however you will need to repeat the operation regularly, in the short term. Do not hesitate to repeat the operation every day while taking care not to damage crops and plants..
Create gourmet places
Cats do not relieve themselves where they eat. Thereby, you can save some places in your garden by setting up small corners for distributing treats and/or food. This solution will collect the approval of cats, their owners, your neighbors and will thus save your garden. Feeding cats… is not reprehensible, at least at first glance!
Invest in a permanent deterrent system
Cats in a garden. Source: spm
Felines hate to be disturbed during their relaxing visits. Some owners prefer to opt for technological solutions, which are more expensive, but effective in the long term. We refer to ultrasonic devices that disturb the hearing of animals, like those used to ward off moles. Without going that far, you can also divert your irrigation system by adding presence sensors. Cats hate water… They don’t like your new way of watering your plants any more.
With the help of these few tricks, you can fairly quickly and inexpensively drive cats and other felines out of your garden. Know that you can just as much combine them! In any case, you must not relax thinking of intervening regularly.
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