How do you keep cats out of flowerbeds?

[Somebody]

Does anyone have ideas on how to keep cats out of freshly mulched flowerbeds?

In this case, it is a newly planted & mulched strawberry bed. I really don't want to be picking strawberries and finding half buried 'surprises'.

[Valerie]

Does anyone have ideas on how to keep cats out of freshly mulched flowerbeds?

In this case, it is a newly planted & mulched strawberry bed. I really don't want to be picking strawberries and finding half buried 'surprises'.

I really doubt there is a way~ unless you squirt them with water if & when you see them- they may quit coming around but other than that it's probably not possible- loose cats abide by no ones rules

[steve-in-kville]

White vinegar. Spray bottle or garden sprayer.

[Valerie]

White vinegar. Spray bottle or garden sprayer.

On the cat or the garden?

[Judas Maccabeus]

Does anyone have ideas on how to keep cats out of freshly mulched flowerbeds?

In this case, it is a newly planted & mulched strawberry bed. I really don't want to be picking strawberries and finding half buried 'surprises'.

Soup. My Chinese friends have recipes.

J.M.

[steve-in-kville]

White vinegar. Spray bottle or garden sprayer.

On the cat or the garden?

Both. Spray the border of the flowerbed. If you can get close enough to a cat, spray them in the face.

[ken_sylvania]

Get a dog.

[Robert]

22 Rifle.

[Somebody]

Some of you have really good ideas!

Some of the ideas my children will object to very strongly!

And we do have 2 dogs, neither really chase cats, unless there's a reason to. Like when the cat is trying to eat out of the dogs dish!! Or if the cats are fighting.

[ohio jones]

Somebody needs to train their dogs to be more reasonable.