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What product can I put on my vegetable patch to stop the cats digging it up ?  
What product can I put on my vegetable patch to stop the cats digging it up ?

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Carole Baskin seems to be able to stop things being dug up x
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Ive tried orange peel. I've tried egg shells. Everything at my last place. So I got a .  
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Get a big cheap bag of chilli powder and sprinkle around. @ostracon9447 need replacing after rain. They soon move on somewhere else
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Plant some scaredy cat plants. (yes they are real) They do stink of weed though  
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Cover with chicken wire protect from cats foxes and plants grow throgh
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You can buy compost made with lion  that’s suppose to help keep cats away
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Upside down plastic forks.  
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@hertzfeld great minds think alike  
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Plastic forks , stick in the ground prongs up  
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Curry powder
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@pori194 these ideas might be good for you x
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Orange peel
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Land Mines
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We put netting over ours, works a treat  keeps everything off it and it was really cheap.  
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Try orange peel.  
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Chilli powder. keeps the lot away.  
+10 votes
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Lay some old garden canes across the soil (across each other) Deters them from digging/using the ground as a litter tray.  
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Ground pepper
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Bnm do netting for £2 that works well
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You used to be able to get lions sung from @inkwell6 Drummond Safari Park. You can get those plastic spikes to lay on ground. Or a motion detor that blast a sound or makes like a water pistol. The only thing that detered my cat was the lion dung. But the neighbours weren't to keen on it.  
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@putup92 was it just lying about then ?  
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@inkwell6 I think at one point to could get lion dung online. See if you can now. I'm going to turn part of the glebe into a veggie plot. I'd be after lions dung if I can source it. It was good.  
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Foil or cucumber, , google cat's with foil or cat's with cucumber
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@rankins4 thanks  
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@rankins4 my cat loves tin foil lol and cucumber doesn't always work either
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Coffee, but cheap as u can and spread it around they hate how strong the smell is
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A Dog!  
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@ostracon9447 found my dogs eating the plants
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Take the spade off them lol
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Could try making a garlic spray
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Even planting garlic
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Electric fence. Can buy the box for £50. Then just need wire and a battery ;)
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Lemon peel is meant to work
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Plastic forks
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I lay trellis over mine, plants grow through but cats can't dig
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Netting stops them
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