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My friend has a liquid feed problem; his is with cats.  He tells me that it kills his plants dead, and I'm sure he said you couldn't eat the plants either, though if they died before fruiting, ach.  So I've heard cats can be bad for yer veggies, or more specifically cat's pee.  Am I harbouring an unnecessary negative here, cat people?  Or do you have to train the cats to keep away from the veg. area?

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by rg (leopold dot lepster at google mail dot com) on Wed Aug 8th, 2007 at 01:57:51 PM EST
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That doesn't sound right, unless they concentrated on a single plant for some reason or you had lots of cats in a small area - Sam's grandmother has difficulty growing things in her small back yard with several cats at a time and very small growing beds.

The little buggers will dig up areas of open soil to bury their crap though, which is the main problem with them.

by Colman (colman at eurotrib.com) on Wed Aug 8th, 2007 at 02:01:50 PM EST
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Yeah, that might be the one.  Very small plot, lossa cats, none of them his, but they liked his garden for some reason.  Maybe he was the only one who didn't beat them with a stick, or maybe it was the only garden that didn't have its own cat(s) so it was a public space for t'others.

Don't fight forces, use them R. Buckminster Fuller.
by rg (leopold dot lepster at google mail dot com) on Wed Aug 8th, 2007 at 02:13:17 PM EST
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Large doses of cat pee will definitely kill plants.  To keep them out of pots, people here put pinecones on top of the soil -- it doesn't hurt the plant, you can water over them, and the cats can't stand on them.  Don't know if that would work on a whole bed, though.  You'd need an awful lot of pine cones.

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by Izzy (izzy at eurotrib dot com) on Wed Aug 8th, 2007 at 02:16:55 PM EST
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... as areas get larger, the dissuasion to rabbits is likely to be a stronger positive impact on garden productivity than the negative wastewater mgt. impacts ... but with enough space that protecting every potential trouble spot is problematic, I reckon the question becomes what plants will attract cats, so you can direct them to an area where they will not cause any problems.


I've been accused of being a Marxist, yet while Harpo's my favourite, it's Groucho I'm always quoting. Odd, that.
by BruceMcF (agila61 at netscape dot net) on Wed Aug 8th, 2007 at 02:56:07 PM EST
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