Scoop it into a plastic bag and put into the trash.

Spray hot pepper juice on the ground and leaves. Cats will not sniff or poop in such an atmosphere. Be careful not to sniff the stuff yourself. One habanero blended with water should do the trick.

There are motion activated sprinklers made that will squirt the cats. Of course you have to turn them off prior to working in the garden yourself.

Believe it or not it isn't a big deal to many of us as all kinds of animals and insects poop in the garden and always have. Most just scoop it up and toss it out. Of course fencing the garden eliminates all sorts of visitors that do worse things than poop there.

But if it a real concern for you then yes, there are a number of repellents that can be sprayed around a garden to repel various animals and Google pulls them all up for you to browse through. Cat repellent sprays usually have a heavy citrus oil base.

https://www.google.com/#q=cat+repellent+sprays

Dave

fortunerose_6a Suzi AKA DesertDance ...

thanks so much for the pepper ideas ... i think i'll be able to manage to grind/process a couple of habaneros ... they are *dangerous* for sure ...and i believe costco sells cayenne in a HUGE container ... again, thank you all for all your ideas ...

on another point ... i have not been on gardenweb for a long time -- we moved, had no garden, major illness, etc. ... i have to say merging with houzze was not a great idea ... one thing i really miss is the availability of a *comment* or *reply* box below each response, not a *catch all* one at the bottom ... how does this one box address the issues about which i asked???

have i missed something? if so, please point this out and show me how i can make individual comments ...

again, i appreciate all your help ... darlene

digdirt2

i'll look at those links and see if there is anything of a *moderate* cost that i can use ... thanks for your time .... darlene

"one thing i really miss is the availability of a *comment* or *reply*
box below each response, not a *catch all* one at the bottom ..."

Not sure I understand completely what you are asking but since its inception GW has always used the current individual thread format. In thread format the comment box is always at the bottom of the discussion. We never had the ability to reply to each individual post. Most early participants voted against that format when Spike first created GW because it is difficult to follow, makes threads overly long and slow to load, and easily hijacked of topic.

" how
does this one box address the issues about which i asked???""

All the posted replies to your original question are directed specifically at the issue you asked. You need not reply to each individual but can if you wish just by including their name all within the same post.

Perhaps you are thinking of another forum though forums using that old format are few and far between any more.

Dave

i've belonged to gardenweb since my first post december 2000 {contrary to what houzze *says,* that i joined gardenweb in 2003}, i just checked my history here and i know i've been here a long time ...december 2000} ... i know gardenweb always had the reply box below each singular post; i never found the threads hard to keep up with ... it's way easier than posting at the bottom of a page of comments when it's just one or two people you want to address and you only have one box in which to address them ... i love the way facebook {fb} posts it's comments and threads below ... does that make any sense to you?

i do mean gardenweb used to be like that ... way easier to follow along and post to each person ... than this ... plus, it was much easier to post from your phone to the *threaded version* as one does to fb, rather than posting like this ...

i'm disappointed with gardenweb and i'm sorry to say i loved the old gardenweb much more than this ...

darlene

Cats poop IS a big deal when they dig up all my newly planted seeds or transplants in their effort to bury it. Also when every time I set foot out my front door it smells like cat sh.... It's one thing I guess if it were my cat, or even a feral one, I suppose, it doesn't have any other option. But the neighbors, who own the cat, answer is "yeah they do that to us too, it's really frustrating." I COULDN'T CARE LESS IF THEY DO IT IN YOUR YARD! ITS YOUR EFFING CAT! If you can't tell, this topic has touched a nerve.

amen .... i think the cayenne pepper and the hot pepper spray ... i'm not nice and i hate that this danged cat pooped in my garden ... i read that cats HATE mulch ... my whole garden is covered with a thick layer of straw mulch ... apparently cats were not surveyed first before someone proposed that hypothesis ....