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se999

If it's normal wooden fencing panels, you can put these at the bottom, they are treated, so you can dig down to put them in.

http://www.diy.com/diy/jsp/bq/nav.jsp?action=detail&fh_secondid=9276678&fh_location=//catal!!!1/en_GB/categories<{9372012}/categories<{9372019}/categories<{9372069}/categories<{9572017}/specificationsProductType=gravel_board

You can get them from lots of places.

gilligansyle

Welcome back!

Sorry you had troubles getting home and suffered from the after effects of fresh air and sea water!

I have a problem at the moment with cats, someone told me that cats always bury theirs. No they don't. at least not in my yard!

Karmacat

:hello: Hiya! Thanks for the feedback all - I've sold on ebay and amazon for years, and I must have been *very* lucky, never had that problem - sorry for those who have, it must be horrible.

Thanks for advice on the dog poo issue _pale_ - its a wire fence, the linked type like this:
http://www.diy.com/diy/jsp/bq/nav.jsp

I'm wondering about big skewery staple type things to hold it to the ground? I might be able to just lay planks against the wire, probably only as a temporary thing, but the whole back of the garden is very difficult to get at - there's a double act of shed then patio/mahoosive laurel hedge going on, with only a couple of feet of fence actually accessible. I might need to suck up to the neighbour (who's on a different street, and I'm not *sure* which house) to do anything. I could certainly approach the owners, Lula, if I knew who they were. I *think* I met one by accident a few days ago - but it could be from one of a dozen houses.... Fairly long term project, that, and I'm *definitely* not going to do it today, I'm still officially on holiday!

Gill (Ethel) - sorry you've got cat poo going on and you're out so much I bet you never see them.... can you buy some really cheap pepper from Tatco or somewhere and throw it around the back? Also getting rid of the smell by sluicing/chucking first helps .... good luck with it.

Legends indeed ... I was in awe ....

The work I did on the garden, by the way, was "just" clearing grass - I got a whole black bin bag full of the stuff, worked for about an hour, and thats my limit now. I felt very virtuous, I can tell you and I might even do something more today - not grass :rotfl:

This is a cockapoo, and the one at the top right is very like my brother's puppy

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cockapoo

Utterly adorable puppy :smileyhea

rtandon27

Good Morning & welcome back KC!

I find a great deterant is chili powder sprinkle all over our neigbourhood cat's favorite spot! It does have to be reapplyed after a frost or rain, but it does not actually hurt the naughty little thing, and it's biodegradable. A tip from the last time I applied some - make sure the wind has not kicked up!!!!

XOX
RT

se999

Gill in London we had tons of cats in the area. In the back garden it was largish beds, there I used coco mulch, which apparently they don't like the smell or texture of, it did work. In the front it was just a narrow border, with a gravel mulch, cats loved it when it was raining as they could keep their feet dryish!! For there I used prickly prunings from roses, holly or any prickly plants. They quickly avoided it. Benefits of these 2 are that they don't wash away, and work all year round. Hope you find something that works.

We had neighbours at one point who provided doggy daycare for their sons family cockapoo, they do look adorable, but they're extremely active dogs due to the original breed traits.

KC would some tent pegs work if you can get close enough.

Karmacat

Hi RT! Is that for dogs as well, you reckon?



ETA - tent pegs! Yes! Brilliant! I think so, anyway, I'll go google some images.

se999

KC chilli could burn especially if it gets into their eyes, or if they sniff it up their nose. You could end up with very irate neighbours if they end up at the vets, I know it's their fault for not keeping the dog in their garden, but you don't want neighbour problems.

Karmacat

Good point, se. I *do* remember my mum sprinkling pepper, and it working .... could do that. I searched at milletts, and there's tent pegs there. Might be a shopping day after all!

Karmacat

Ha! The Amazon Queen am I I've now got 13 listed ... somehow got my Amazon mojo back .... am definitely shutting down the computer now tho Hope everyone has a good day

xxx

Karmacat

Right, one more Amazon listing done - a tiny little booklet, a true memoir about an English teenager buffeted around in France during the French Revolution, trying to look after his brothers and trying to get home. Very unemotional, but it makes you think, same as any modern day disaster - he and his family were reduced to begging, and didn't eat for days at a time ...

Anyway, back from town, and I bought a tempered glass chopping board (get me!) for £1 in the Robert Dyas clearance plus a lovely 3/4 length blue coat/anorak from my nice charity shop for £6.50 then part of my birthday present from my mum - a good black handbag, from Next. The anorak is with that money too, but don't tell her Ooh, got a coriander plant for 35p too.

Pleased with that lot! Then I came back, stuffed my face, and got out into the garden again, its a *beautiful* day. Got together half a bin bag of grass, but most of the work was chopping up dead wood to go, and even cutting back the overgrown buddleia, before it can damage the fence in the gales. No progress made on the dogproofing - but I *have* realised that if I could block off access to my garden from behind the fence (with some wood) that would save me having to turn myself inside out, so to speak. Then it'd be a lot easier to just use the tent pegs or something on areas where the fence is accessible to humans

Off into the shower now ...

Have a lovely evening all!