Stopping cats using garden as litter tray - suggestions please?

Snowdrops_Bluebells

I haven’t tried and tested this idea... I was looking at grass reinforcement the other day and apparently and apparently people use the plastic grid stuff to stop their dogs digging on the lawn. So could you construct a frame from bamboo canes or wire mesh and place over the flower bed (as in on top
of the soil)  so the cats can’t dig? 

Or scatter old bramble canes? (dried so they don’t take root and give you a new problem!) Apparently it deters slugs...

The only method I found to work when the neighbours cats kept on pooping in the kids sand pit our shrub border was to move, which would be a bit of a drastic solution! 

boongywoongy

We tried a few things but what worked for us was to put up mirrors! Apparently, it gives them the impression that they're being watched whilst doing their business which they don't like and it worked. They get the message and found somewhere else and have left our pebbly drive alone.

Senerade

Cat’s really just do as they please. I have feral cats that love my garden they pee and crap all the time and I have yet to find a deterrent in 6 years. The only thing that I have found to work and it’s only in the summer, I have like a water crow that deters when they come on my lawn and sprays them with water they soon jet off. 

littlemoney

My non legal suggestion would be lead poisioning from a shot gun.

Cats have ruined multiple beds in my garden over the years. One winters day when the garden was covered in snow, a cat took a diagonal path across my lawn to a heather bed ti do its business and then another diagonal path back across the lawn. There was only a very short straight section missing between the start and end of the diagonals. The cat had specifically walked to the bed and then resumed its original route.

ElephantBoy57

Buy a bag of 50 Bbq Skewers for around £2/£3

Stick them in the ground next to anything that you plant, one either side if u want more protection.

If they are pushed into the soil a cat cannot dig that area and the stick can hardly be seen.