Viewing post #178019 by Marilyn

dave said:My solution was to go out in the woods and find the canes of thorned plants, like Smilax rotundifolia. Those have really nice thorns. Then cut the stems to length and cover the soil with them. That put a stop to the cat problem in a fast hurry.

That reminds me.....

I used to cut the rose bramble stems growing next to our property and lay them on the ground in my flower beds to deter the cats. Maybe I'll cut some next year and lay them on top on my containers and flowerbeds.

One year I bought a pretty flowering catmint for my container and didn't want the cats in it, so I stuck a bunch of plastic forks, pronged side up around it.