Good Organic Gardening

10 TOP TIPS

1 CATS SCAT!

Tired of finding feline calling cards in your garden? Here are four simple solutions. Make a repellent by combining two parts cayenne pepper, three parts dry mustard and five parts flour. Simply mix together and sprinkle. Cats don’t like tea leaves, so empty your used ones onto the garden soil. Try using a sprinkler activated by a motion sensor. Getting doused once or twice will deter any cat. To keep them off your pots, use 150mm-long wires made from old coat hangers. Insert half the length

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