How to Keep Cats From Digging Up Garden Bulbs
Every gardener knows the feeling of having worked hard to create an attractive flower garden only to have it dug up by neighborhood cats. Although it may seem that the cats are deliberately digging up flower bulbs, they aren't. By nature, cats like to dig. The unearthed bulbs are just a casualty of the process. It can be hard to get cats to stop digging in a flower bed unless you introduce a substance that they find offensive. Fortunately, there are natural ways to repel cats from a garden. Does this Spark an idea?
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Use a tape measure to measure 3-feet intervals around the perimeter of your flower bed. Mark the intervals by digging an "X" into the ground.
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Use a spade to dig 6-inch holes at the marked intervals, and insert a coleus plant into each of them. This plant is also called "scaredy-cat" because cats don't like the smell of it.
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Firmly pack the soil around the plants, and water them thoroughly.
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Dampen a cotton ball with oil of cloves for additional protection, and bury the cotton ball just outside the perimeter of the bed, approximately a half-inch deep. If the flower bed has no edging or border, bury additional cotton balls soaked in oil of cloves at 3-feet intervals around the garden.
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