5 Easy Ways to Keep Cats out of Your Yard and Garden

5 Easy Ways to Keep Cats out of Your Yard and Garden
To deter cats from using your yard as a litter box, you can use coffee grounds. Aleksandra Madejska/Shutterstock
Updated:

If you’ve ever suffered the annoyance of outdoor cats ruining your yard and garden, help is on the way!

Consider any of these options to quickly send them on their way without harming them.

Sprinkle Used Coffee Grounds

Cats naturally seek out bare soil to use as their toilet space, making gardens their favorite outdoor litter box. This causes damage to plants, gives off a seriously unpleasant odor,; and makes for very unsanitary conditions.

Because they don’t like the smell, you can use coffee grounds to deter cats from using your garden as a litter box. By regularly sprinkling used grounds (either wet or dry) in and around your garden, cats will eventually decide to find a new bathroom spot.

If you prefer to work with dry grounds, do this: Spread the wet, used coffee grounds on a baking sheet in a thin layer and place them in a 250 F oven until dry.

Mary Hunt
Mary Hunt
Author
Mary invites you to visit her at EverydayCheapskate.com, where this column is archived complete with links and resources for all recommended products and services. Mary invites questions and comments at https://www.everydaycheapskate.com/contact/, “Ask Mary.” This column will answer questions of general interest, but letters cannot be answered individually. Mary Hunt is the founder of EverydayCheapskate.com, a frugal living blog, and the author of the book “Debt-Proof Living.” COPYRIGHT 2022 CREATORS.COM
Related Topics