Stopping cats using garden as litter tray - suggestions please?

[Deleted User]

I have recently put in some raised flower beds and now cats are using them to poop in! 🙈 
I've looked at sonic deterrents, pellets etc but most of the reviews I've read are less than positive - has anyone got any tried and tested ideas that actually work but don't harm or deter other creatures?  

ariba10

Get a Dog???

Farway

Nothing works except a physical barrier

Alfrescodave

I found crushed moth balls worked in my garden. need to replace them after heavy rain but not an expensive option. Also deterred dogs doing their business on the grass verge in front of my house

Justagardener

The motion activated sprinkler. Works really well, as long as you have a hose pipe.

[Deleted User]

Thanks for your replies, I've decided to go with a physical barrier 😊

twopenny

I did a few things which eventually worked in a smallish area.

I used dried dead walflower stems that are multi branch and stuck them around the edge, pebbles in bare ground and the easiest was cheap kids 'windmills' that you buy for sandcastles or the big fancy ones from Poundland and such.

The movement seems to be off putting. It's kind of useful to know how hard the wind is blowing before you go out too

elsien

ariba10 said:

Get a Dog???

Doesn’t work! They crap in there at night when the dog is indoors.
I’ve resorted to putting holly twigs as a disincentive every time I find a new patch.
Little barstewards even went in the pot I was growing potatoes in. 

newlywed

I kept lemon rinds, used coffee and onion ends and whizzed them up and spread round the edges of the soil.  Kept the cats and foxes away for a week or two. 

[Deleted User]

@Farway has the best approach, a physical barrier is really the only way.
Try old canes dotted around like lollipops or making a 'cage' around the area with closely arranged canes, those wire covered metal plant supports are good too - both methods i've used with complete success.
If there's no access, to the area/spot' it can't happen 👍

pogofish

Get your own cat, preferably a big gnarly tom - it will spend its days and nights repelling all other feline interlopers, whilst making its own territorial “deposits” in your neighbours cats territory!