Re: Plants free from cats

From: "Janice Stocks" <kjan44@freewwweb.com>

I hate to burst someone's bubble here but cats love garlic!!!  back in the
80's I raised show cats. I feed them a raw meat mixture & added all kinds of
other ing. I would put a lot of garlic in. It is a flea deterent around
here. it does help keep the fleas off. Folks around here also take garlic
pills to deter mosquitoe bites. I can't say just how effective it is. My
cats would lick the garlic powder off of my fingers. Might work on other
animals though.
Janice Stocks
Baytown,Tzone 9

>>
>> garlic is a fine deterrent to cats and many other unwanted critters. i
wonder
>> if their close cousins, the more decorative alliums like the drumsticks
would
>> have the same effect?
>
>Are you certain about this? I understand that the pet food industry is one
of
>the
>largest consumers of garlic. Apparently it makes the horrible stuff put
into pet
>food palatable.
>
>In a similar vein, I was once advised to plant garlic with lily bulbs to
keep
>pocket gophers away. The gophers ate the garlic first, told their friends
and
>then set to work on the lilies. We grow quite a lot of garlic and I have
not
>noticed that our cats have any aversion to it. Since we are not bothered by
>vampires, I now confine it to the vegetable garden.
>
>Cheers
>
>John Montgomery
>m*@junction.net
>Vernon  BC  Zone 5
>
>
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