What are some home remedies for keeping animals out of the garden?

Question

I keep finding cat poo in my garden and I don't like it.

Answer 1

My Mother in law swears by mothballs for keeping cats out of her flowers.

Animals also hate the smell of mothballs, so you can toss a few into your garden and flowerbed as well, to keep away cats, dogs, and rodents.

Did you know onions are a natural pesticide as well? Here's an easy-to-make concoction that will repel insects (and animals too) in your flowers and vegetables: Use a blender to puree 4 onions, 2 cloves of garlic, 2 tablespoons of cayenne pepper, and one quart of water. Put the mixture aside and then dilute 2 tablespoons of soap flakes in 2 gallons of water. Pour all the contents in your blender, stir it up, and this gives you an eco-friendly bug spray to use on your plants

Answer 2

If you have a veggie garden, chicken wire might not work and scent repellents is a no-no, so try citrus peels. Cats are averse to the smell of citrus so place the rinds a few inches apart into your veggie garden. As the smell fades, replace with more rinds.

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Another natural repellant is vinegar. You will not be able to use this in your garden, but it works great to use around garden perimeters. Use a store bought 5% acidic or apple cider vinegar. Make sure you reapply after it rains.

Answer 3

You don't like it?  Don't eat it but mix it into the dirt as it is fertilizer.

Answer 4

a coiled up black hose will usually keep cats out ... they think it's a snake.

Answer 5

Pepper dust is a good one - or you can buy dried lion or tiger dung and that generally keeps everything away!

Answer 6

I've heard that human hair will do it ..... I haven't tried it tho. I've also been told to place plastic (picnic) forks tine-side-up just under the soil so that when stepped on it hurts the pads in their feet. It worked for me in a vegetable garden years' ago.

good luck.  Oh....I also heard that taking two small pieces of dog poo and placing them at the place the cats enter the area will work good.  They don't like peppermint oil either!!

Answer 7

If you put hair around it (just like clumps from a hairbrush) it's supposed to help keep animals away. Also try a fence. I even heard if you spray pepperspray that's supposed to work. Hope I helped!