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Re: Bagging/ Cats (?!?!?)

 Earlier this Winter the UK gardening newsgroup was having 'hissy fits' on
the subject of cats.  Someone suggested using 'anise seed sticks',
something I've never heard of.  Others agreed that they worked wonders.  I
asked what they were and where I could find them and never got an answer.  

Curious, I took some star-anise seed (for Chinese cuisine) from the
kitchen, threw it in the blender with water, strained it and sprayed it. 
The cats loathed it and avoided all places I had sprayed.

The problem is it has to be reapplied, like all of "Grandma's Old
Remedies".

Rue is also supposed to a good cat repellant.  I'll let you know when (if
ever) I get a chance to try it.

/kr, WNY,Zone 5 and going down to 15f tonight.

> 2. In order that the plants set the SEEDS successfully, does anyone know
> any of "Grandma's Old Remedies" for cat obnoxiousness, whereby the
> seedsetters are cut down in their prime because of the tasty little
> pollenators that hover over them?
> (even the cleistogamous) 
> 
> (please nothing impractical or borderline inhumane, like cayenne pepper
> everywhere- that's a lotta pepper!- and by the way, they're not my
> cats.)
>                                Good gardens!
>                                  Rob 
>                                ChroniPepperoni@webtv.net
> 
> Nepeta camphorata, cataria, cataria citriodora, clarkei, dirphya,
> floccosa, grandiflora, italica, latifolia, lanceolata, mussinii,
> podostachys, taydea, troodyi parnassica, tuberosa & ..., Germ. @ 70* F
> w/Light 
>
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