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Help with late sowing

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Rookiegardener · 22/07/2020 18:46

I planted peas, spinach and carrots yesterday. I sowed them directly into a raised bed. This morning I find a cat had used it as a litter. Do I put seeds in again and take a guess about where to put them? Will a cage put around it suffice keeping cats away?? A fox also snapped my tomato plant and left me a pile of poop. I just don't know how to do this gardening stuff. I also chose the hardest time to sow?! I read I need to order a cloche now for the veg as the weather cools

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babba2014 · 22/07/2020 18:52

Unfortunately they are attached to your lovely raised beds.
There are solutions like putting plastic forks around your plants, or covering with some sort of plant covering material like a poly tunnel but small scale which you can DIY so they don't find free soil areas.
I'm not a fan of this but her a shovel and scoop out the poop, too up with soil and plant in.

Beebumble2 · 22/07/2020 18:53

I always put wire netting over sown seeds. The local cats love newly raked soil.
I’ve just sown my carrots in a very large planter, apparently it stops carrot fly! We’ll see.

Rookiegardener · 22/07/2020 23:06

Thanks for the responses. I put chicken wire around it. I didn't think of putting it on top. That would have been a smarter thing to do! If they haven't been rummaged in tonight I'll do that tomorrow.

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