just thought id give you all a tip...if your having trouble with cats using your borders as a toilet...buy pea sticks from garden centre and stick them in soil in all angles it really does work and you can buy a bag full for only �1
I know this is not quite relevant- but we have a serious squirell problem and in amoment of inspiration when pruning a berberis we have.....I laid the cuttings from it along the exposed compost in between some trailing fuschia- so far no squirells have dug there!
Just a thought...Many years ago an old neighbour cadged some lion poo from a visiting circus and put small pieces around his garden. Result - local cats stayed well away. I know it doesn't work nowadays as circuses don't have lions any more, but if you live near a zoo?????
a pea stick is what you would use for when your garden peas grow..they are just long thin sticks.. mine are green you get them from garden centres for �1 a bag very cheap as you can break each one into a few bits
hear is a small list of things you will need
a few small tablet bottles
cotton wool
neat amonia ( you can get this from good cemist)
right put some amonia in the bottles about half full
put some cotton wool in the top not too tight
now bury them up to the neck in the garden
put a bit of slate or somthing simaler
try this one cut about 2 foot ofgreen hose pipe
put it in amongst your flowers