How to Keep Dogs and Cats Out of Your Garden

You spend all day planting and making sure your garden looks great...you go to bed with a smile on your face. When you get up the next day, you look out at your garden and what do you see? Holes! A neighbor's dog or cat has dug up all your plants and destroyed you beautiful gardens...

So what do you do? You make a homemade potion that will keep cats and dogs out of your gardens.

These are to prevent dogs/cats from going near your garden...it is not meant to harm them.

Instructions

1. 

   What could this cute little puppy ever do wrong? He could rearrange your flowers. He could make a bed out of your brand new flowers. So how do you keep him from doing this...

2. To keep Dogs from digging up your gardens, you will need the following items:

   1 clove garlic, chopped
   1 pungent onion, chopped
   1 quart warm water
   1 teaspoon Tabasco sauce
   1 Tablespoon cayenne pepper
   1 large plastic or metal bucket

   This makes about 1 quart of mixture

3. Mix everything in the bucket and let it sit overnight. In the morning scoop out some of the mix and sprinkle it where the dogs like to dig.

   If you have a dog that likes to sleep in your garden, this mixture will also prevent that from happening.

4. 

   And how could this kitten cause any trouble for your gardens? They dig in the soft soil...which can cause your plants harm.

5. To keep Cats away from your gardens, you will need the following:

   2 Tablespoons cayenne pepper
   3 Tablespoons powdered mustard
   5 Tablespoons plain flour
   Large mixing bowl
   2 Quarts water
   Funnel
   Plastic squirt bottle

   This makes about 2 quarts.

6. Mix first 3 ingredients together in the large bowl. Add the water gradually, mixing the entire time. Using the funnel, pour into the squirt bottle.

   Squirt this all around your garden. Cats don't like the way it smells so they won't come near it.

7. If you have a tomcat that has sprayed things around your home, put white vinegar into a plastic squirt bottle and squirt the areas where they have sprayed. This will get rid of the smell. If you have a birdbath, you can spray around the base of the birdbath to keep the cats from trying to get to the birds.

   They can smell the vinegar, but after it dries, we can't.

Tips & Warnings

• Planting catnip in a garden by itself can keep cats out of your garden. Cats love catnip, so they will be more attracted to the catnip garden and less to yours.

• If you don't stop the dog from digging in your bed right away, this can become quite a habit. If it has, then why not give the dog his own digging place. Get a small sandbox and fill it with sand. Bury some treats and soon the dog will be digging in the sand and not in your garden.

Resources

• Your Home Remedies
• How to Make Organic Fertilizer for Your Roses
• How to Make an Oak Leaf Tea for Your Acid Loving Plants
• How to Make Homemade Fertilizers for Your Houseplants
• Your Home Connection
• How to Make Simple Gifts for The Gardener in Your Life
• How to Keep Other Pests Out of Your Gardens