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

Thanks for the tips. I am trying to keep my cat (actually my roomates)
out of my beds by keeping everything well watered. Seems to help a
little but not totally. I try your suggestion.

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>From: 	fdic@moran.com[SMTP:fdic@moran.com]
>Sent: 	Wednesday, April 9, 1997 3:42 PM
>To: 	seeds-list@eskimo.com
>Subject: 	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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