Help! Kitten constantly in house plants

[naughtykitten]

We have an 18 week old kitten, he's very soppy and well behaved other than he seems to love playing in the dirt in the house plants we have. It's not a toilet issue he's never made a mess outside his litter tray.
He seems to like digging and carrying around any lumps of dirt that are big enough to get in his mouth.
We've tried putting citrus peel and pepper on the soil and a training spray from pets at home which smells like citrus too but nothing seems to deter him unless we tell him no when we're in the same room.
Any advice? He won't be allowed outside for another couple of months.

Our sixth month old kitten does the same. We have got two poinsettias, miraculously still alive since Christmas, she (Layla) is always at them and there are more leaves on the ground than on the plants. Daft feline.

This always reminds me of the meme I saw once "you may have plants or cats...not both"

The problem you have is that cats like to dig in soil to toilet. Kittens wee does not smell to us that much, but, cats have fabulous noses! I would run water through the soil to give it a real rinse through, then just dhut him out of the room, or, shut the plants in the bathroom!
On a totally separate note, make sure to get him neutered & microchipped before he goes out. Too many little boy cats disappear in kitten season! It will stop him getting bullied & beaten up the the local cats so much as well.

We had this problem (also with digging in herb planters in the garden). We have a rosemary bush so I cut off lots of twigs of it and covered all the bare soil in the pots with them, no more cats.

@essex42 Poinsettias are toxic to cats, like Lillie's.
I'd move them well out of her reach.

My boy cat isn’t bothered about digging in the soil but loves having a good old chomp on the leaves of my house plants. I had to do a lot of googling when I first got him to make sure none of them are toxic. He knows he isn’t supposed to do it but sometimes he just can’t help himself- I’ll tell him no and he’ll stop until he thinks I’m not looking then I hear a crunch and he’s it again. It doesn’t seem to be causing him any harm but my plants now look a bit bedraggled!

When I let our two young rescue cats out into the conservatory, the male cat did exactly the same thing with the house plants! I've now wrapped foil around the pots and over the soil, which has stopped them in their tracks - for now. It's a bit of a faff to water the plants though! Another alternative could be to get some biggish garden pebbles/stones to put on top of the soil so they can't see what's beneath?

I'm hoping the plants will become less interesting to my two when they're eventually let into the garden. Although I have visions of them digging up all my plant beds!