What are some home remedies for keeping animals out of the garden? and Garden mothing 2011 #37, 31 August

What are some home remedies for keeping animals out of the garden?

I keep finding cat poo in my garden and I don't like it.


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Answer by KiKat2U
My Mother in law swears by mothballs for keeping cats out of her flowers.
Animals also hate the smell of mothballs, so you can toss a few into your garden and flowerbed as well, to keep away cats, dogs, and rodents.

Did you know onions are a natural pesticide as well? Here's an easy-to-make concoction that will repel insects (and animals too) in your flowers and vegetables: Use a blender to puree 4 onions, 2 cloves of garlic, 2 tablespoons of cayenne pepper, and one quart of water. Put the mixture aside and then dilute 2 tablespoons of soap flakes in 2 gallons of water. Pour all the contents in your blender, stir it up, and this gives you an eco-friendly bug spray to use on your plants

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Garden mothing 2011 #37, 31 August


A record shot of a not very green Green Carpet, Colostygia pectinataria.

A rather unfruitful session, with no new species for the year - and not much of anything else either!:
Garden Carpet 1
Common Carpet 1
Green Carpet 1
Willow Beauty 2
Flame-shoulder 1
Large Yellow Underwing 21
Lesser Yellow Underwing 8
Setaceous Hebrew Character 9
Square-spot Rustic 9
Bright-line Brown-eye 1
Common Wainscot 1
Mouse Moth 1
Flounced Rustic 4
Vine's Rustic 1
Burnished Brass 1
Spectacle 1
Straw Dot 1
Snout 1

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