The neighborhood cats are using my flower beds as their litter box!
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Alice
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The sun shines on the porch in the morning and when you walk out the front door, the smell will knock you over. Please help !!!
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several great suggestions here!
Try sprinkling some paprika around your plants to help deter them from digging.
Spreading Citrus Peelings around helps, but you do need to put out fresh ones regularly. Has worked in the past for me.
Some folks recommend putting plastic forks upside down throught garden bed.
Get Kabob skewers and place them inside your boxes every 1 to 2 inches the cat won't be able to bury their business and will get the point, literally and begin to go elsewhere
Have you come up with a solution Alice? It seems to be alot of people deal with this (me too) because of the increasing feral cats. I think besides doing TNR programs with the help of the Humane Society and my neighbors the best thing I found was replacing the mulch with stone. I used medium pea gravel in one area and lava rock in another and they don't like it as much as the wood mulch.