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  • From: "Stephanie Nosacek" <breezynosacek AT hotmail.com>
  • To: market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: [Market-farming] RE: Cats in the Garden
  • Date: Thu, 12 May 2005 01:54:06 -0400

Ohboy do you have a problem!

When I was growing up I stayed with my grandmother as much as possible and even lived with her on a permanent basis for a few years.

She owned a lot facing 25th street which had two cottages on it. She lived in the back one and rented the front. We had an alleyway that ran to 26th street and an elderly lady, whose home faced the other street lived there and collected cats.

My grandmother tried everything humanely possible to keep those cats out of her garden because if they sprayed the plants they died.

One year, the old woman built a childs playhouse out in the backyard and all of her cats went into it. She died a couple of years later and they counted close to 50 cats, if I recollect correctly. No wonder my grandmother was always fighting to keep the cats out of her tomato plants.

I don't know what it is in cat urine but it will kill your plants. I've got two cats now that we adopted, they come around for dinner and I'm already struggling with keeping them out of my garden. They love tilled soil.

Steph






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